Parker, award-winning poet, to give public reading at MC
Release Date: February 25, 2005
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Alan Michael Parker |
MONMOUTH, Ill. — Poet, novelist and critic Alan Michael Parker will
return to Monmouth College to give a reading March 3 at 7 p.m. in
the Great Room in the college’s Mellinger Teaching & Learning
Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Parker, who is also the author of three books of poems, will read
from his recently-published novel, “Cry Uncle.”
According to one review, Parker’s novel “explores the problem of who
we choose to be when no one’s looking. Both suspenseful and
meditative, this first novel by a prize-winning poet delves into
(the main character’s) ethics as his behavior becomes – even to
himself – new and unpredictable.”
Parker’s poetry has received a Pushcart Prize and four fellowships
from state art councils. His poems have been published in American
Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, The New
Republic, The New Yorker, Pleiades, The Yale Review and The Paris
Review, and his prose appears regularly in journals including The
New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker.
Parker, who previously visited Monmouth in 2002, co-edited “The
Routledge Anthology of Cross-Gendered Verse” with Mark Willhardt,
associate professor of English at Monmouth, and he was North
American editor of “The Routledge Who’s Who in 20th-Century World
Poetry” (also edited by Willhardt).
While on campus, Parker will also lecture in various classes. In
addition to his writing career, he teaches at Davidson College,
where he is the director of creative writing, and at Queens
University.
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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