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Visiting Writers Series to Present
Mark Doty and Elizabeth
Rosner on Nov. 14
Posted November 4, 2002
HOLLAND -- The Hope College Visiting Writers
series will feature writers Mark Doty and Elizabeth Rosner
on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker
Theatre.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Doty is the author of six books of poems,
including his most recent work, "Source" (2002). His
collection, "Atlantis" (1995), received the Ambassador Book
Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award;
and "My Alexandria" (1993) won the National Book Critics
Circle Award and Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, and was also a
National Book Award finalist.
He has also published two memoirs: "Heaven's
Coast: A Memoir" (1996), which
won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and
"Firebird" (1999), an autobiography. He has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the
Arts and other foundations.
Elizabeth Rosner is best known for her first
novel, "The Speed of Light," which addresses the impact of
the Holocaust on the children of survivors, a population
which includes Rosner. Her fiction and poetry have been
published in "Poetry East," "Another Chicago Magazine" and
"Southern Poetry Review."
The Hope College Jazz Ensemble will begin
performing at 6:30 p.m., when the doors open for the
reading.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 East
8th St. in downtown Holland.
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