Tuesday, October 31, 2000

WILMINGTON, NC ­ Poet, professor and chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Heather McHugh will present a reading at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Cameron Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A reception and booksigning will follow. This event, sponsored by The King's Road Writers Series and the UNCW Department of Creative Writing, is free and open to the public.

McHugh has authored 11 volumes of poetry, essays and translations, most recently The Father of the Predicaments and Broken English: Poetry and Partiality. Her book was a finalist for the National Book Award, and she has also been honored with a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writing Award, a PEN/Voelcker Award, the Folger Shakespeare Library's O. B. Hardison Prize and Harvard University's Daniel A. Pollack Prize, as well as with grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.

The Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington, McHugh will conduct a poetry writing workshop and visit classes in the UNCW Creative Writing Department's MFA Program during November and December.

"She is known nationally as an extraordinary teacher and poet," said Mark Cox, department chairman. "We are extremely lucky to be able to share her lively spirit and dazzling intelligence with our graduate and undergraduate students."

Developed to offer distinguished literary events to the Wilmington community, The King's Road Writers Series is made possible with funding from The King's Road in Barclay Commons.

For further information, please contact the UNCW Creative Writing Department at 910-962-7063.