Wednesday, January 30, 2002

WILMINGTON, NC – Michael White, associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, will read from his works at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6, in Morton Hall, Bryan Auditorium. The UNCW Creative Writing Department is sponsoring this free public event. A reception and book signing follows.

White is the author of The Island and Palma Cathedral. The latter won the 1998 Colorado Prize from the University Press of Colorado. He has won numerous awards for his poetry including a $20,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. During the past four years, White won four fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council that included writer-in-residence fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt., and to the La Napoule Art Institute in La Napoule, France. White’s poems have appeared in magazines such as Paris Review, New Republic, Ploughshares, New England Review and in anthologies such as the Best American Poetry annual.

According to Mark Strand, former U.S. poet laureate, “There is a Wordsworthian grandeur about Michael White’s poems, a rhetorical and emotional fullness that is breathtaking. Reading him, one feels the irresistible pull of belief in the retrievals of poetry, in the drift of language into experience, and in the imagination as the central and most persuasive means by which we say yes to the world.”

For more information, contact the UNCW Creative Writing Department at 910/962-7063.