Virginia Tech professor and poet Bob Hicok will be featured in Minnesota State Mankato’s second 2008 Good Thunder Reading Series residency Thursday, Oct. 9.
Thursday morning Hicok will visit with writers and will be interviewed on KMSU-FM. At 3 p.m. he will lead a discussion on the craft of writing in Ostrander Auditorium, Centennial Student Union. At 7:30 p.m. he will read from his published work in CSU 253.
All events are free and open to the public.
Hicok’s fifth book, This Clumsy Living, was published in 2007. He also is author of Insomnia Diary, Animal Soul (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Plus Shipping and The Legend of Light (which won the 1995 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was named a 1997 ALA Booklist Notable Book of the Year).
A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Hicok’s work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including three volumes of Best American Poetry.
An interview with Hicok, part of the “Authors in Transit” series on public radio station KMSU 89.7 FM, will air on Thursday, Oct. 9, at 1 p.m., and on Friday, Oct. 10, at 11 a.m.
Those who want more information ay contact call Richard Robbins at (507) 389.1354.
The Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Department of English, the College of Arts & Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, and the Nadine B. Andreas, Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer and Robert C. Wright Endowments, as well as individual donors. It is made possible by a grant from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council (funds appropriated by the Minnesota Legislature and the McKnight Foundation), and a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board (legislative appropriation and National Endowment for the Arts grant). Library Services and the Barnes & Noble Bookstore provide additional assistance.
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