April 12, 2011

Briar Cliff Professor to Lead Poetry Workshop

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Phil Hey, MFA, professor of English and writing at Briar Cliff University, will lead poetry workshops at “pRhyme Time on the Prairie,” Friday, April 15, 2011, and Saturday, April 16, 2011, at the Akron Public Library in Akron, Iowa.

At the event, sponsored by “Humanities Iowa” and the “National Endowment for the Humanities,” Hey also will conduct readings of his poetry.

Hey has authored seven poetry collections: In Plain Sight, Reorganizing the Stars, Plain Label Poems, A Change of Clothes, Ballads & Songs, How It Seems to Me and St. Francis. He also is on the editorial staff for Celestial Light Press and The Briar Cliff Review, the university’s award-winning literary magazine.

The recipient of Briar Cliff’s Duff Award for the Pursuit of Excellence and the Literacy Award by the Iowa Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts, Hey has been writing and teaching at Briar Cliff since 1969.

For more information about “pRhyme Time on the Prairie,” email phil.hey@briarcliff.edu.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,150 students from 29 states and 11 countries. Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care, compassion and service. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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