Parker to Give Poetry Reading at Monmouth College
Release Date: March 22, 2002
Poet and critic Alan Michael Parker will give a reading March 25
at 7:30 p.m. in the Great Room in Monmouth College’s Mellinger Teaching & Learning Center. The
event is free and open to the public.
Parker, who is an associate professor of English at Davidson
College, is the author of two books of poems, “Days Like Prose” and “The Vandals.” In early
2003, his third collection, “Love Song with Motor Vehicles,” will be published. He co-edited
“The Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse” with MC assistant professor of English Mark
Willhardt and was North American editor of “The Routledge Who’s Who in 20th-Century World
Poetry (also edited by Willhardt).
Parker’s poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Double
Take, The New Republic and The Paris Review. His book and art reviews appear regularly in
Salon.com,
The Charlotte Observer and The New Yorker.
The accomplished poet has received three fellowships from state
art councils, a Pushcart Prize and a citation from the Modern Language Association, and he was
one of only 15 poets to be published in all major volumes of “younger American poets” in 2000.
While on Monmouth’s campus, Parker will lecture in various
classes, and he will also be the final judge for this year’s Rosanna Webster Graham Prize in
Creative Writing, awarded annually by MC’s English department.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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