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Mother and Son Duo Literary Event

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University of Georgia
230 River Rd
Athens, GA 30602

Upcoming

7:00 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, 2013

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Events,  Other

7:00 pm Cine 234 West Hancock Sponsored by: The Georgia Review Contact: David Ingle Assistant Editor 706-542-0397 "The Georgia Review" presents a reading by acclaimed poet and prose writer Marianne Boruch, who is touring the state as part of the annual Georgia Poetry Circuit. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently "The Book of Hours" (2011), and a memoir, "The Glimpse Traveler" (2011). Boruch’s son Will Dunlap, a fiction writer and current graduate student in creative writing at the University of Georgia, will serve as the opening reader for the evening.A Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh in early 2012, Boruch teaches in the master's of fine arts program at Purdue University and in the low-residency graduate program for writers at Warren Wilson College. She also has taught at Tunghai University in Taiwan and at the University of Maine at Farmington, and run poetry workshops at summer conferences including Bread Loaf, RopeWalk and the Haystack School of the Arts.Dunlap grew up in Indiana, studied cello at the University of Michigan and received a master's of fine arts degree from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. There he studied fiction and screenwriting and received the Keene Prize for Literature. Dunlap writes historical fiction and just completed a Civil War-era novel. He also recently finished up an opera libretto for American composer William Cooper. The opera, "Hagar and Ishmael," premieres in April 2013.News release: http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/mother-and-son-duo-kick-off-athens-2013-literary-season/  Georgia Review
 
 

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