Briar Cliff University Media Announcement

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University Department of English will host a poetry reading by Vivian Shipley on Tuesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. in the Meis Recital Hall on campus.

Shipley, a Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor at Southern Connecticut State University and Editor of Connecticut Review, has published 11 books of poetry. Her book Gleanings: Old Poems, New Poems won the 2004 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement. Shipley’s When There is No Shore won the 2003 Connecticut Book Prize for Poetry from Library of Congress’s Center for the Book.

The poet’s other awards include the Lucille Medwick Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Prize, the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize from the University of Southern California, the Julia Peterkin Prize from Converse College, the Marble Faun Poetry Prize from the William Faulkner Society, the Daniel Varoujan Prize from the New England Poetry Club, the Hart Crane Prize from Kent State University and a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant. Vivian Shipley lives in North Haven, Conn., with her husband, Ed Harris.

This free event is open to the public.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.