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Prof invited to festival by First Lady Laura Bush BOWLING GREEN, O. – Poetry from Bowling Green will be heard on the National Mall Saturday (Oct. 4) when Larissa Szporluk,
an assistant professor of English and creative writing at BGSU, reads from her work.
Szporluk has been invited to Washington, D.C., by First Lady Laura Bush to participate in the National Book Festival, a celebration
of reading, books and libraries. She will be among approximately 80 of the nation's most distinguished writers, poets, children's
book authors and storytellers who will be taking part.
During her stay in Washington, Szporluk will attend a dinner hosted by Mrs. Bush at the Library of Congress on Friday (Oct.
3) and a coffee at the White House on Saturday morning.
Szporluk will give a reading that afternoon on the mall, followed by a book-signing. Her most recent collection of poetry,
"The Wind, Master Cherry, the Wind," was published earlier this fall by Alice James Books.
The Bowling Green poet received a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship in poetry last year. Her second book
of poetry, "Isolato," published in 2000 by University of Iowa Press, received the Iowa Poetry Prize, and her first book, "Dark
Sky Question," published in 1998 by Beacon Press, was the winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize.
(Posted October 02, 2003 )
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