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d'Alzon Arts Series: Poetry Reading with Diane Wald and Michael Burkard

Poets Diane Wald (l) and Michael Burkard (r) will present their poetry at Assumption on November 19. Poets Diane Wald (l) and Michael Burkard (r) will present their poetry at Assumption on November 19.  

Poets Diane Wald (l) and Michael Burkard (r) will present their poetry at Assumption on November 19.

November, 2004—
Assumption College's d'Alzon Arts Series presents a reading with poets Diane Wald and Michael Burkard on Friday, November 19, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the Emmanuel d'Alzon Library.

Diane Wald has published over 200 poems in literary magazines since 1966. She was the recipient of a two-year fellowship in poetry from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, The Denny Award, and The Open Voice Award for her talents.

Michael Burkard currently teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.  He is the author of nine books of poetry, the most recent being Unsleeping and Pennsylvania Collection Agency (both 2001). His poetry has won him a Whiting Writers' Award, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This event is free and open to the public. Coffee and refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Dawn Thistle in the d'Alzon Library at (508) 767-7272.