7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
9/22/2011
English 01, Basement Auditorium
Texas Tech
As the first event in this season's Contemporary Authors Reading Series sponsored by the Creative Writing program, poet Sydney Lea will give a poetry reading on Thursday 9/22. Lea’s ninth book of poetry is
Young of the Year (Four Way Books, 2011). His book
Pursuit of a Wound was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; another volume,
To the Bone, won the Poets’ Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Foundations, and has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in major literary journals as well as magazines ranging from
The New Yorker to
Sports Illustrated. He is the founding editor of
The New England Review, and has taught at Yale, Middlebury, Wesleyan, and Dartmouth. He lives in New England, where he is active in conservation and Basic Education movements.
