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Missouri poet laureate to give reading at Bradley
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Visiting Writers Series to host Missouri poet laureate
Peoria, IL (February 8, 2011) Missouri poet laureate David Clewell will give a poetry reading at Bradley University on Wednesday, February 23, at 7:30 PM in the Wyckoff Room in Cullom-Davis Library. The reading is a presentation of the Visiting Writers Series and is free and open to the public.
David Clewell is the author of eight collections of poetry -- most recently, Taken Somehow By Surprise (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011) -- and two book-length poems, The Conspiracy Quartet and Jack Ruby's America. His work regularly appears in a variety of national magazines and journals -- including Poetry, Harper's, The Georgia Review, New Letters, The Kenyon Review, and Boulevard -- and has been represented in more than fifty anthologies. Among his honors are several book awards: the Felix Pollak Poetry Prize (for Now We're Getting Somewhere), National Poetry Series selection (for Blessings in Disguise), and the inaugural Four Lakes Poetry Prize for Taken Somehow By Surprise.
Clewell teaches writing and literature at Webster University in St. Louis, where he also directs the English Department's creative writing program. His collection of Charlie the Tuna iconography is now the largest in private curatorship.
