Hamilton, NY — Colgate University’s 2002 Spring Poetry Series and Native American studies program will present a reading by Maurice Kenny on Monday, March 4. Kenny will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. in Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.
Kenny, who is Mohawk, is a Watertown, N.Y. native. He received the 2000 Elder Recognition Award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers. His book of poems Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues, B. March 11, 1607, D. October 18, 1646 was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, as was his book Between Two Rivers. His book The Mama Poems received the American Book Award in 1984, and the Bloomsbury Review called his Wounds Beneath the Flesh the best anthology of 1983. Kenny is a recipient of a National Public Radio Award for Broadcasting.
Kenny was educated at Butler University, St. Lawrence University and New York University, where he studied with American poet Louise Bogan. He has been coeditor of the literary review magazine Contact/II, as well as the editor/publisher of Strawberry Press. He has also been poetry editor of Adirondac Magazine, poet-in-residence at North Country Community College, and visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, the En’owkin Center at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, and at Paul Smith’s College.
Colgate University, founded in 1819, is located in Hamilton, New York. A highly selective, independent, liberal arts college with 256 faculty members and 2,750 undergraduate men and women enrolled in programs that lead to the bachelor of arts, Colgate also offers a small graduate program. The university’s general education core curriculum embodies Colgate’s longstanding commitment to integrated learning. The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) recently designated Colgate as one of 16 Leadership Institutions that offer a national model for excellence in innovative education. Students currently enrolled at Colgate hail from 44 different states, 3 U.S. territories and 26 countries. Log on to www.colgate.edu to learn more about Colgate University.
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