Oregon poet and editor David Axelrod will give a noon reading and will answer questions Wednesday, Feb. 24, in a Minnesota State Mankato Good Thunder Reading Series program extra.
The event, free and open to the public, will be in Centennial Student Union Room 201. In addition, an interview with Axelrod will air on KMSU 89.7 FM Thursday, Feb. 25, at 1 p.m., and Friday, Feb. 26, at 11 a.m. as part of the “Authors in Transit” series.
Axelrod is author of the new book "Departing by a Broken Gate" and author of four previous collections of poems. “Cartographer’s Melancholy” won the Spokane Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 Oregon Book Award. His collection of cultural and environmental essays about the Northwest, “Troubled Intimacies,” appeared in 2004.
His poems and essays have been published in New Letters, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, River Styx and Verse Daily, among others. He also edits Basalt, a journal of fine and literary arts.
Those who want more information about the series may call Richard Robbins at 507-389-1354, or visit the Good Thunder Web site.
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