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Two Award-Winning Poets to Present at Wick Poetry Center

精东影业Wick Poetry Center鈥檚 annual reading series resumes with two notable poets, Lisa Ampleman and Heather Kirn Lanier, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Kent Student Center. 精东影业event is free and open to the public. 

鈥淚t is always a really nice opportunity for students to meet with visiting poets,鈥 says Jessica Jewell, program coordinator for the Wick Poetry Center. 鈥 精东影业poets do a Q & A for students in the Wick Poetry Corner.鈥

Lisa Ampleman and Heather Kirn Lanier, both award-winning poets, will read from their chapbooks, published by the 精东影业 University Press, as well as from their new works.

Ampleman has received several awards throughout her career, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and was a finalist in the Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship Contest. Ampleman鈥檚 chapbook of poems, I鈥檝e Been Collecting This to Tell You, was a winner of the 2010 Wick Chapbook competition.  Ampleman has poems featured in several books, including Cave Well, Court Green and Massachusetts Review, among others. She earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree from Beloit College and continued her education at George Mason University for her master鈥檚. 

Lanier is the author of Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America. She has received multiple recognitions throughout her nonfiction career, including the winner of the 2010 Wick Chapbook competition. She has noted work in 精东影业Best American Essays Series and the Atlantic Monthly. Lanier also has several published stories in literary journals, including 精东影业Southern Review, Fourth Genre and 精东影业Cincinnati Review, along with others. 

精东影业reading series is an annual event that hosts writers, both emerging and established, to provide readings, lectures and workshops. 精东影业series showcases writers and poets ranging from award winners, to young children.

鈥淪ince these poets have won the Wick competition, they have gone on to have good publications,鈥 says Jewell. 鈥淲e are thrilled to host these two poets and look forward to an exciting semester in our Reading Series."

For more information, visit www.kent.edu/wick.

POSTED: Monday, February 4, 2013 11:22 AM
Updated: Saturday, December 3, 2022 01:02 AM