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Mailing Address:
Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 70
1301 East Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Main Office: Peck Hall 302
Department Chair: Dr. Tom Strawman
Telephone: (615) 898-5644
Fax: (615) 898-5098

Stephen Dobyns to Read at MTSU

Poet and novelist Stephen Dobyns will read from his poetry in the Hazlewood Dining Room of the JUB on April 10, 2000 at 4:00.

Stephen Dobyns has published ten books of poems and twenty novels. His most recent collection of poems is Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides (Penguin, 1999). His most recent novels are Boy in the Water (Holt/Metropolitan, 1999) and The Church of Dead Girls (Holt/Metropolitan, 1997). Ten of his novels form a series of mysteries set in Saratoga Springs, New York. His first book of poems, Concurring Beasts, was the Lament Poetry Selection for 1972 of the Academy of American Poets. His fourth book, Black Dog, Red Dog, was a winner in the National Poetry Series. His sixth book, Cemetery Nights, received the Poetry Society of America's Melville Cane Award in 1987.

Dobyns

Dobyns has taught at more than ten colleges and universities including Boston University, the University of Iowa, and the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College.

The reading, sponsored by the Virginia Peck Trust Fund, is free and open to the public.