Join us for a reading with poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
7pm-8pm
Helen C. White Hall, Rm 6191
Kelly is the author of three books of poetry, To the Place of Trumpets, selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Song, winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and The Orchard, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2008, Brigit Pegeen Kelly was awarded the 2008 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets
Her work has appeared in many anthologies and literary magazines, including The Nation, The Yale Review, New England Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, five Pushcart Prize volumes, and six volumes of The Best American Poetry
Kelly, who has taught for many years primarily at the University of Illinois, has also taught at the University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, Warren Wilson College, and numerous writers' conferences. In 2002 the University of Illinois awarded her both humanities and campus-wide awards for excellence in teaching.
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