[stylist] Blind poet FW: [ENG-CREATIVE] Upcoming reading

[slery]

I just wanted forward on this announcement since it is about a current,
published, blind writer.

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: English Creative Writing Students 
> [mailto:ENG-CREATIVE at LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Paul F Griner
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:14 AM
> To: ENG-CREATIVE at LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ENG-CREATIVE] Upcoming reading
> 
> 
> Born in Pine Bluff, Ar-kansas in 1966, and edu-cated at the 
> Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, Constance 
> Merritt is the author of three collections of po-ems: A 
> Protocol for Touch (University of North Texas Press, 2000), 
> winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and a finalist 
> for the William Carlos Williams Book Award, Blessings and 
> Inclemencies (Louisiana State University Press, 2007), a 
> Library of Vir-ginia Book Award finalist, and Two Rooms 
> (forthcoming from the Louisiana State University Press in 
> 2009). In 2001 Merritt received a grant from the Rona Jaffe 
> Writers' Foundation and a fellow-ship from the Radcliffe 
> Institute for Ad-vanced Study at Harvard Univer-sity. From 
> 2003 to 2005 Merritt served as the Margaret Banister 
> Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College. Cur-rently, she 
> lives and gardens in Lynchburg, Virginia. Acclaimed Poet 
> CONSTANCE MERRITT at the IUS Library *The race is Not ours to 
> forfeit or to win. We*ve Barely landed and lie gasping in the 
> weeds; We cannot see or hold our heads aloft.*
> * from *Song at the Edge of the Sea*
> TUESDAY,
> NOVEMBER 18, 2008
> 12:15 PM
> IUS Library
> 3rd Floor Reading Area
> Indiana University Southeast
> 4201 Grant Line Road
> New Albany IN 47150
> 812.941.2489
> 
>