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Poetry Lecture in Library


The LeRoy V. Good Library (Brighton campus) is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a lecture Friday, April 25, 12:00 pm to 12:50 pm. Jean A. Kingsley (McDonough) will be speaking on her new book of poetry Traceries: Poems and the creative writing process. The lecture will be located on the 4th floor of the library, outside of room 2-452.

Jean A. Kingsley (McDonough) was born in Omaha, Nebraska, has lived in Arizona, Alaska, and Virginia, and now resides in Rochester, New York. She earned an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from SUNY College at Brockport, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University. She is the recipient of the 1995 Academy of American Poets Prize, a finalist for “Discovery”/The Nation and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts Fellowship. Her poems and essays have appeared in Tar River Poetry, River Oak Review, American Literary Review, Excursus Literary Arts Journal, Quarterly West, Eclipse, and Poetry Lore, among others.

Jean is also the Senior Technical Assistant in the Writing Center and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the English/Philosophy and Transitional Studies departments at Monroe Community College.

If you have any questions, please contact Lori Annesi, Reference/Special Collections Librarian at: <"mailto:lannesi@monroecc.edu">.

Lori Annesi
Libraries
04/10/2014