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Gwyneth Lewis - PCWS Poetry Reading
Venue
Cathedral of Learning
Date
10/29/2012
Time
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Event Type
Reading
Genre
Poetry
Sponsor
Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, Pitt Honors College, University Book Center
Cost
$0.00
Description and Reader Names: The Welsh poet, playwright, novelist, and librettist Gwyneth Lewis will be reading in the English Department on the afternoon of Monday, October 29, as part of a visit jointly sponsored by the Honors College, the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and the Department of English. The reading will be held from 4:30 to 6 in 501 and will be followed by a reception.
Ms. Lewis was Wales's inaugural National Poet and this year was the winner of that country's prestigious Vale of Glamorgan Eisteddfod. Her work, which often employs rhyme and meter, has the telegraphic mysteriousness of Emily DIckinson and at times the oracular power of the ancient epics. She's also the author of Clytemnestra, a play based on the Oresteia, and The Meat Tree, a novelistic reworking of the fourth branch of the Welsh epic the Mabinogion.
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hesse@pitt.edu
Telephone
412 624 6508
Website
http://pghwriterseries.wordpress.com
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Is this an open mic event?
No
Is this a book signing?
No
Will author's books be for sale?
No
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526 CL - English
Address 2
4200 Fifth Avenue
Address 3
526 CL - English
City
Pittsburgh
State
PA
Zip
15260
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University of Pittsburgh Writing Program
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