Award-Winning Poet Forrest Gander to Read Next Thursday By Adam Kowit
	Forrest Gander		OCTOBER 7, 1999-- Award-winning poet Forrest Gander will read from his works at 7:30 P.M. Thursday, October 7, in King 106. The Creative Writing Program sponsors his free public appearance. Gander has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Writing and a Whiting Award for Writers. He is the editor of Mouth to Mouth, a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poets. He has published four books of poetry, most recently Science & Steepleflower (New Directions, 1998). Critics have placed Gander in an arc of influence that ranges from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Duncan and Michael Ondaatje. Donald Revell, writing in the Colorado Review, praises "his sharp sense of place." The Voice Literary Supplement calls him "a sound master . . . Eros presides over . . . generous poems that ring with the wondrous names of lowly things." Gander’s critical essays appear in the Nation, Boston Review and Providence Journal, among other places. With poet C. D. Wright, he co-edits the literary book press Lost Roads Publishers. He is the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. More information is available from the Creative Writing Program at 440-775-6567.
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