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Leslie Adrienne Miller
An award-winning author of four books of poetry reads from her works during an Oct. 10 evening appearance at Mississippi State University.
Leslie Adrienne Miller also will discuss poetry and poetics during a 4 p.m. public question-and-answer session in the fourth-floor Lee Hall film room. Her latest work, "Eat Quite Everything You See," was released earlier this year by Graywolf Press of St. Paul, Minn.
Her reading begins at 8 p.m. in the Colvard Union small auditorium.
Both events are sponsored by the English department and the University Honors Program. Additional support is provided by Paul and Bernadette Lyons, in memory of Charles and Agnes Lyons.
A faculty member at the University of Saint Thomas in St. Paul, Miller holds creative writing degrees from Stephens College and University of Missouri, both in Columbia, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of Houston, Texas.
Her three earlier collections of poems, all published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, include "Yesterday Had a Man in It" (1998), "Ungodliness" (1994) and "Staying Up For Love" (1990).
Recognition of her writing skills have come in the form of, among others, the McKnight Artists Fellowship of Minnesota's Loft McKnight Award of Distinction; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; the Strousse Award from Prairie Schooner, a national literary quarterly of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and the Nebraska Review Poetry Award.
For more information about Miller's appearances at MSU, telephone the English department at (662) 325-3644.