December 2, 2009

BCU Professor to Perform at Painters, Poets & Pavilion

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Jeanne Emmons, Ph.D., professor of English and writing at Briar Cliff University, will be a featured poet at the Second Annual Painters, Poets & Pavilion (P³) Exhibition, which opens at 1 p.m., Friday, Dec. 4, at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, S.D.

At the exhibition, 25 visual artists from the region have been paired with 25 regional poets to create collaborative artworks and poems.  Dr. Emmons’s poem “Subjective” will be framed and exhibited alongside a companion painting by Faith Benzer of Brookings, SD.

A reception will be held on Friday, December 4 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. during the Pavilion Holiday Indoor Arts Fair. For more information about the P³ exhibition, please visit www.washingtonpavilion.org.

Dr. Emmons has three published collections of poetry: Rootbound (New Rivers Press 1998), Baseball Nights and DDT (Pecan Grove Press 2005) and The Glove of the World (Backwaters Press 2006). Emmons’ first book won the Minnesota Voices Poetry Competition. Her newest book, The Glove of the World, won the Reader’s Choice Award from Backwaters Press.

In addition, she won the Comstock Poetry Prize and James Hearst Poetry Prize, as well as awards from The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, South Coast Poetry Journal and Iowa Woman. Her work has appeared in literary journals, such as American Scholar, Alaska Quarterly, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, New Orleans Review, Cream City Review and many others.

Dr. Emmons, who joined Briar Cliff in 1980, received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 28 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.

 

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