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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 04/15/97
Contact: Margie Yu
Public Affairs Assistant
PHONE: (323) 343-3047
FAX: (323) 343-6405
What & Who:
Cal State L.A. will present a reading by poet Jean Burden
at the University's 12th Annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading, a series established
in 1986 to honor Jean Burden for her influence as a poet, essayist,
anthologist, teacher and editor, and for her long-standing support
of poetry on the Cal State L.A. campus.
When:
Thursday, May 15, 1997, 7 p.m.
Where:
Cal State L.A. Music Hall. The University is located at
the Eastern Avenue exit, San Bernardino (I-10) Freeway, at the
interchange of the 10 and 710 Freeways.
Poet:
Jean Burden is known internationally for her published anthologies
and books of poems and essays. In addition, Burden has been
the poetry editor of Yankee magazine for more than 40
years.
More:
This increasingly popular event features a reading by such major
and emerging American poets as Maxine Kumin, Tess Gallagher,
Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Kizer, Howard Nemerov and Mark Strand.
Reading last year was multiple Pulitzer Prize winner and United
States Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur.
Info:
Free to the public. For more information, call the English
Department at Cal State L.A., (323) 343-4140.
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