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University of Iowa News Release
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March 14, 2007 Poet Richard Kenney Reads At UI March 28
Kenney, who teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Washington, is the author of "The Evolution of the Flightless Bird," winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; "Orrery"; and "The Invention of the Zero." He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Lannan Literary Award. His individual poems have appeared in many magazines and literary journals. Writing in the New York Review of Book, Brad Leithauser described Kenney as "one of the most gifted and multifaceted and original of American poets." The Writers' Workshop is a graduate program in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For UI arts information and calendar updates, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa. To receive UI arts news by e-mail, go to http://list.uiowa.edu/archives/acr-news.html, click the link "Join or leave the list (or change settings)" and follow the instructions. STORY SOURCE: University of Iowa Arts Center Relations, 300 Plaza Centre One, Suite 351, Iowa City, IA 52242-2500. MEDIA CONTACT: Winston Barclay, 319-384-0073; cell: 310-430-1013; winston-barclay@uiowa.edu
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Poet Richard Kenney, a guest of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Glenn Schaeffer Library and Archives.