WMU Home > About WMU > WMU News Spring Frostic Series begins with poet Carl PhillipsFeb. 13, 2008 KALAMAZOO--Poet Carl Phillips offers the first reading in the Gwen Frostic Reading Series for spring semester beginning at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in the Little Theatre. All readings in the series are open to the public free of charge. Phillips is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently "Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006" and "Riding Westward" (2006). His collection "The Rest of Love" (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other books include: "Rock Harbor" (2002); "The Tether" (2001), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; "Pastoral" (2000), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; "From the Devotions" (1998), finalist for the National Book Award; "Cortege" (1995), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "In the Blood" (1992), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. Spring 2008 Frostic Reading Series Monday, Feb. 18, poet Carl Phillips *Due to a schedule conflict, the date and location of Lisa Kron's reading was changed to Monday, Feb. 25, at the Epic Center Theatre, 359 S.Kalamazoo Mall. All readings are at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre, which is located at the corner of Oakland Drive and Oliver Street on Western Michigan University's East Campus. There is free off-street parking behind the theatre. For more information about the Gwen Frostic Reading Series, contact Elizabeth Marzoni at elizabeth.s.marzoni@wmich.edu. To be added to the mailing list for reading series announcements, write to Becky Beech at rebecca.beech@wmich.edu and include your complete name and postal address. Media contact: Thom Myers, (269) 387-8400, thom.myers@wmich.edu WMU News |