Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Award-winning poet and visiting professor Peter Makuck will read from his poetry at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 24 in Kenan Hall 1111 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Peter Makuck is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poetry, Long Lens (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), Off-Season in the Promised Land (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2005), Against Distance (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1997), Shorelines (Green Tower Press, 1995), The Sunken Lightship (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1990), Pilgrims (Ampersand Press, 1987) and Where We Live (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1982). Makuck is also the author of two short story collections, Costly Habits (University of Missouri Press, 2002), which was nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and Breaking and Entering (University of Illinois Press, 1981), as well as the book of criticism, An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris (Camden Press, 1994).

Makuck founded the national poetry journal Tar River Poetry in 1978 and served as editor of the journal until 2006. He has received five honorable mentions in Best American Short Stories and his story "Filling the Igloo" was included in The Best of the Southern Review. He received the Charity Randall Citation award from the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh in 1993 and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Award for the best book of poems by a North Carolinian in 1989. His poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, The Nation, North American Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review. Makuck is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW.

Upcoming Events
• Reading by poet Kim Addonizio, 7 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 10, Computer Information Systems Building 1008
• Lookout Books Launch Event, featuring a reading by author Edith Pearlman, 7 p.m., Thurs., March 3, Morton Hall Auditorium
• Reading by fiction visiting writer Paul Lisicky, 7 p.m., Mon., April 4, Kenan Hall 1111

All events are free and open to the public. Receptions sponsored by the department and book signings sponsored by Pomegranate Books will follow readings.

For further information on UNCW's programs and events in creative writing, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063.