Don't miss tonight's Poetry Monday with featured poet Sandra Meek,
Assistant Professor of English at Berry College!

When:  Monday, October 8th, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Where: UTC University Center, Signal Mountain Room (upstairs)

Featured Poet: Sandra Meek

Open Mic: After Sandra Meek's reading, we will have an Open Mic!  Come and
share your work!

****This reading is free and open to all!

More about the featured poet:

Sandra Meek is an assistant professor of English at Berry College who teaches
creative writing and contemporary literature.

Dr. Meek received a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University
and a Ph.D. in English, Creative Writing, from the University of Denver.  She
served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Manyana, Botswana, from 1989-1991.  Her
poems have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Kenyon
Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Conjunctions, Mid-American Review,
Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and others.  Her poem
"How to Build a Fallout Shelter," published in Indiana Review, was nominated
for a 2000 Pushcart Prize. "Evolution," a poem from her chapbook, The
Circumference of Arrival, which was published by Elixir Press in 2001, was
featured on Poetry Daily (http://poems.com).  Dr. Meek was also the featured
Poet of the Month for January 2001, at Poetry Net
(http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/first.html).

Sandra Meek has also published essays and review essays on contemporary
literature, particularly African literature and U.S. poetry.  Nomadic
Foundations, a book-length collection of poetry and a finalist for numerous
awards (including the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry at Sarabande Books,
the Northeastern University Press Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, the
University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham Prize and Felix Pollak Prize in
Poetry, and the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry, the
Alice James Books National Beatrice Hawley Poetry Competition, and the Tupelo
Press Poetry Award, where the collection was awarded Honorable Mention) will
be published by Elixir Press in summer 2002.


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