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Show Poet to perforin works at SUSC Woman poet Kathleene West will read her poetry today at Southern Utah State College. The poetry reading will begin at 8 p.m. in Thorley Recital Hall. It is free to the public, sponsored by the SUSC Literary Guild. "It is with pleasure that we invite the public to another poetry reading," said Kathleen Sanders, guild president. "Just two weeks ago Herbert Scott, professor of English at Western Michigan University, read his poetry at SUSC." Ms. West received honorable mention for the Elliston Poetry Award in 1979 for her "Land Bound." She is also the recipient of a Pacific Northwest Writers Poetry Contest Award and an Academy of American Poets Award. She has six publications . to her credit, including "Land Bound," "The Armadillo on the Rug and Other Tales," "No Warning," "Backbone" and "Woman Poet." A poetry manuscript "Water Witching" will soon be published by Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington. Ms. West comes to SUSC from her home in Wayne, Neb., where she is a poet-in-the-schools and is at work on a new manuscript of poems, "Plainswoman." The visiting poet grew up on a farm three miles west of Genoe, Neb., and attended school through the sixth grade at Skeedee District No. 21, a one-room country school. She graduated from the University of Nebraska, taught school in Nebraska and Texas for four years, then moved to Seattle where she received her MA in advanced ad-vanced writing from the University of Washington. Her experiences in the pacific northwest included in-cluded an apprenticeship at Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, where she learned book design, typesetting and operation of a letterpress. While living at Port Townsend, she commuted to Bremerton to teach English composition and creative writing at Olympic College, that is, she said, "until the legendary sinking of Hood Canal Bridge." Kathleen West |