Contact: Maridith Geuder
STARKVILLE, Miss.--An award-winning poet who directs Rhodes College's creative writing program will read from her works Wednesday [Oct. 17] at Mississippi State University.
Tina Barr's 8 p.m. public appearance in the Rogers Auditorium is part of the 2007-08 Visiting Writers Series of the MSU English department and its creative writing program.
Rogers Auditorium is located on the first floor of McCool Hall.
Barr is the author of "The Gathering Eye," a 2003 book of poetry that was awarded the Tupelo Press Editor's Prize by the Vermont-based independent publisher. In addition, works by the Memphis, Tenn., teacher, writer and administrator have appeared in American Poetry and the Harvard and Antioch reviews, as well as numerous other literary journals.
A much-in-demand visiting lecturer and reader, she has been featured at events sponsored by the New York Public Library, Sarah Lawrence College--her undergraduate alma mater--and Bucknell University, to name a few.
Fellowships awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, as well as Virginia, Pennsylvania and Tennessee arts councils, are among her numerous career honors.
Additionally, three chapbooks of her works individually have won the Flume Press Award and the Painted Bride Quarterly and Longleaf Press literary contests.
She also holds a master's degree in literature and a doctorate from Temple University, and a master's of fine arts in poetry and translation from Columbia University.
For more information, telephone the English department at 662-325-3644.
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