Celebrated poet Annie Finch will read poetry at 8:00 p.m. Thursday, March 26th in the Governor’s Room, Overman Student Center. Finch reads in honor of Women’s History Month. She is professor of English at the University of Southern Maine and Director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is the author of four books of poetry, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Eve, Calendars, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: An Epic and Libretto, and has written or edited nine books about poetry, most recently The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self.  In a review of Calendars, Richard Howard writes, “Sympathies, passions–so often the opposite of actions—are so intensely held, wrung and used, that Annie Finch’s poems spread themselves like so much fresh laundry: sweet, abstergent, redressed.”

Finch’s reading is sponsored by the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, Student Fee Council, the Office of Student Diversity and the Women’s Studies Program.  A reception will follow the reading, in the Heritage Room. The reading is free and open to the public.

Finch will also visit two classes during her time in Pittsburg.  She will give a talk in a class at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, in 312 Grubbs, and another at 8 a.m. Friday, March 27, in 303 Grubbs. Visitors are welcome.