Poet David St. John: Special appearance

Performing Arts - Books and Poetry | March 13 – 14, 2013 every day | 6-7 p.m. | Kolligian Library, Green Room: KL 355

Location:  5200 North Lake Rd, Merced, CA 95343

Speaker: David St. John, poet/professor, Write! Look! Listen!

Sponsor: Center for the Humanities & Department of Literature

Write! Look! Listen! presents poet David St. John reading from his latest book, "The Auroras," which is partly set in the San Joaquin Valley.

The Fresno native has published 10 books during his career, and has been nominated for the National Book Award. His other prizes include the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award, the Prix de Rome fellowship in Literature, the Discover/The Nation prize, the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, the James D. Phelan Prize and the O.B. Hardison Junior Poetry Prize from The Folger Shakespeare Library.

He has received several National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. St. John's poems have appeared in many of the most prestigious literary venues, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Harper’s, Antaeus and Field.

He is a professor at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as director of the Ph.D. program in literature and creative writing.

Event Contact: 209-761-9677