Poetry, fiction presented at 4th annual Faculty Reading

Poetry and fiction will come together in the 4th annual Faculty Reading at Pittsburg State University. Pittstate creative writing faculty, poet Christopher Anderson and novelist Kathy De Grave, will read at 8:00 Thursday, Feb. 4, in the Governor’s Room at the Overman Student Center.

“This should be an exciting reading. Kathy and Chris are both writers whose characters startle,” said Professor Laura Lee Washburn, director of the creative writing program. “I’ve seen images and ideas in their works that exist nowhere else. One of Chris’s poems mentions the ‘foretaste of damnation,’ and Kathy’s Fire Handed Down certainly grapples with heaven and hell.”

Both Anderson and De Grave teach creative writing and American Literature at PSU.  Anderson’s poetry has appeared most recently in Tar River Poetry.  De Grave is the author of the novel Company Woman and her short stories have been published in such journals as Margin and Potato Eyes and in the anthology Our Working Lives.

The reading is co-sponsored by the Student Fee Council and is free and open to the public. A reception (which means food!) will follow in the Heritage Room.

As usual, a 1-2 page summary-reaction paper will earn you extra credit.