Date: 4/13/00

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Vince Gotera, UNI associate professor of English language and literature, (319) 273-7061

Vicki Grimes, UNI Office of Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

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University of Northern Iowa Reading Series will feature poet Jeanne Emmons, April 19

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa —Jeanne Emmons, poet and teacher at Briar Cliff College in Sioux City, will be the next presenter in the Northern Iowa Reading Series at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, in Baker Hall's Thompson Commons, Room 161.

Emmons' fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary publications, including American Scholar, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, New Orleans Review, Laurel Review and others. Emmons' other credits include her literary criticism on the “difficult” poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as other genres of literature: fiction, memoir and personal essay.

Emmons teaches literature and writing at Briar Cliff College. She is also the poetry editor of The Briar Cliff Review. Her collection of poetry, Rootbound, won the Minnesota Voices Competition and was published by New Rivers Press. The book also won a Pippistrelle Voices Competition.

“The poems of Jeanne Emmons are a hidden treasure in Iowa's prairie,” says Vince Gotera, associate professor of English and coordinator of the creative writing program at UNI. “Her book, Roothound, is full of sensual and sensory details that inspire our imaginations as readers and fellow writers. Her themes include the beauty of the natural landscape as well as the inner dynamics of the human family. Her reading will be a delightful experience.”

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Gotera at (319) 273-7061 or through e-mail, gotera@uni.edu.

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