Carrie Fountain, author, poet, and visiting professor of English Writing and Rhetoric at St. Edward's University, will be reading from her first collection of poetry, "Burn Lake," at St. Ed's, on Thursday, September 24.
Fountain's "Burn Lake," which recently won a National Poetry Series Award and will be released in 2010 by Penguin Publishing, is "set in southern New Mexico" and "weaves together the experience of life in the rapidly changing American Southwest," as stated on the events description on the St. Ed's Events Calendar.
The reading is at 7:30 p.m. in the Maloney Room (Main Building). For all of you Fountain fans, poets/writers (or poetry/writing lovers)...or, well, anyone, this is the place to be Thursday night: listening to poetry and perhaps (for the writers out there) being inspired by what you hear. At least for me, it will be inspiring to hear the work of a poet who won such a prestigious award (and will be published by such a prestigious publisher) for her first collection of poems. (In case you didn't know, that's kind of a big deal.)
So I'm pretty excited about going. Even though I'll have to make the bus ride/walk to and from school (on yet another late, dark night) on a day that I don't have to be on campus (which doesn't seem like a big deal, but when you do that twice a day, five days a week, days you don't have to be on campus - and therefore, don't have to wear yourself out with all the walking - are rare and spectacular), I know it will be worth it. And, as a poet, I'd be absolutely crazy not to go.
Hope to see you there!
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