February 23, 2010

Briar Cliff University to Host Poetry Reading

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Author Christine Stewart-Nuñez, Ph.D., will read selections of her poetry at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, in Meis Recital Hall on the Briar Cliff University campus. This free public event is sponsored by Briar Cliff’s Department of English and Writing.

 

Dr. Stewart-Nuñez is assistant professor of English at South Dakota State University, Brookings, where she teaches creative writing and is coordinator of women’s studies and creative writing programs. She is the author of The Love of Unreal Things, Unbound & Branded (Finishing Line Press 2005 and 2006), and Postcard on Parchment (ABZ Press 2008). Her latest book, Keeping Them Alive, will be published next year by WordTech Editions. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, including Prairie Schooner, Calyx, Arts & Letters, The Briar Cliff Review and North American Review.

 

There will be a book signing following the event.

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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