TWO ENGLISH PROFESSORS TO READ AT HELICON WEST

Dr. Michael Sowder and Dr. Jennifer Sinor will be reading at Helicon West on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7 PM at the True Aggie Cafe, 117 N. Main in Logan. This event is free and open to campus and community.

 

 

 

Michael Sowder's poetry collection, The Empty Boat, was chosen by Diane Wakoski to win the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, and his collection, A Calendar of Crows, won the New Michigan Press Award. His critical study of Walt Whitman, Whitman's Ecstatic Union, was published by Routledge Press in 2005. His poetry and essays appear frequently in journals and magazines throughout the country. Most recently his poem "American Life in Poetry" is going to be featured on Ted Kooser's syndicated newspaper column.  An associate professor at Utah State University and poetry editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, he is currently working on a new collection of father-son poems, a collection of Buddhist poems, and a spiritual memoir.

 

 

 

Jennifer Sinor is the author of The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing. Her essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Most recently, her work was nominated for a National Magazine Award and won the 2009 Utah Original Writing competition for nonfiction. She teaches creative writing at Utah State University.