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What:
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn, as well as author and essayist Barbara Hurd will give a free public reading at Portland State University, sponsored by PSU’s Department of English and Friends of English.

When:
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 6 p.m. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing; books will be available for purchase.

Where:
Smith Memorial Student Union, Vanport Room (1825 SW Broadway, #338, Portland, Ore.)

Cost:
The lecture is free and open to the public.

Contact:
For more information contact Michael Clark (503-725-4956) or Nixie Stark (503-725-5360).

Background:
Stephen Dunn was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Different Hours. He is a trustee fellow in the Arts and professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He is the author of 12 collections of poetry, a book of prose poems and a book of prose: Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs. In 1995 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are the Levinson Award from Poetry magazine and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Barbara Hurd is the author of two nonfiction works, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, and Objects in This Mirror (poems). Her essays and poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Best American Essays 2001, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review and Prairie Schooner. She was the recipient of a 2002 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National Nature Writing Award, and finalist for the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Md., and co-edits the literary journal Nightsun.

For Immediate Release (#05-042)