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Show ' ... Public invited Poetry reading slated at U CKDAK CITY - A poetry reading by Kichard Shclton, an Arizoiui poet nominated lor the Pulitzer Prize and National Hook Award tor his most recent book, ."The P.us to Veracruz," will be today at Southern I tali State College. The public is invited to attend the poetry reading which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Administration Building, room 204. Shelton's reading is being sponsored b by the SUSC Literary Guild and iH'partment of English. The quest poet's first book, "The Tattooed Desert," won the International Poetry Forum's United States Award in 1970. In addition to being nominated lor the Pulitzer Prize and National Hook Award lor "The Hus to Veracruz," Shclton has lxen the recipient of a NEA Writer's Fellowship and threfe Borestone Mountain Awards, including First Award in Borestone Mountain's "Best Poems of 1971." Shclton has lived in southern Arizona since 1956.' He is a professor of English at the University of Arizona, where he was director of the Creative Writing Program from 1979 to 1981. He is currently one of the three judges of the Lamont Poetry Award of the Academy of American Poets. The poet's poems and prose pieces have appeared in more than 100 magazines and journals including "The New Yorker," "Poetry," "The Paris Review," "Kayak," "The American Poetry Review" and "The Antioch Review," and have been translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Polish and Japanese. National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation have featured his work, and he has . read at colleges and universities throughout the country. Many of his poems have been set to music by established American composers. In 1974, Shelton established, under the auspices of the Arizona Commission on the Arts, a Writer's Workshop at the Arizona State Prison. Eight books of poetry and prose by the men in that workshop have been published, "including the anthology "Do Not Go Gentle," now in its second printing. A 30-miriute documentary film was made about the workshop by Topaz Productions. As a result of the original workshop, six writer's workshops are now functioning in -adult correctional facilities in Arizona. "We are fortunate to have Mr. Shelton at SUSC," said Dave Lee, English Department Chairman. |