MEADVILLE, Pa. – April 9, 2009 – In the final presentation of the 2008-2009 Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College, writers Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky will read from their work at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14 in the Tillotson Room of Allegheny College's Tippie Alumni Center at Cochran Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
Doty was awarded the 2008 National Book Award for Poetry for “Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems,” which the judges described as “elegant, plain-spoken and unflinching.” He is the author of six books of poems, including “My Alexandria,” which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and “Atlantis, Sweet Machine.” He is also the author of the memoirs “Heaven's Coast,” “Firebird” and “Dog Years.” Among his many other awards are Great Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, two NEA Fellowships, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, a Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Award and the Witter Byner Prize.
Lisicky is the author of “Lawnboy,” the memoir “Famous Builder,” and the forthcoming novel, “Lumina Harbor.” He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He has taught at Cornell University, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch University-Los Angeles, the University of Houston and The Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
For information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Associate Professor of English Christopher Bakken at (814) 332-4338.
