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Bluefield College Visiting Writers Series
UPCOMING VISITING WRITERS AT BLUEFIELD COLLEGE
November 12, 2007 Rick Mulkey
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Rick Mulkey, a native of Bluefield, Virginia, is the author of Toward Any Darkness ,Before the Age of Reason, and Bluefield Breakdown. His work appears in the anthologies American Poetry: the Next Generation, among others. Individual poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Connecticut Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poet Lore, Poetry East, Shenandoah and Southern Poetry Review. He has received several awards including a Hawthornden Residency and the Literary Review's Charles Angoff Award. He has taught creative writing and American literature at a number of colleges, universities, and writing workshops, including Wichita State University where he directes the MFA in Creative Writing.
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| March 27, 2008 Ed Davis |
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Ed Davis was born in Princeton, West Virginia and attended Concord College and West Virginia University. He teaches at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. He has published poems and stories in such journals as Appalachian Heritage, Zone 3, Appalachian Journal, and Wind. His books include Appalachian Days (poems), Haskell (poems), Whispering Leaves (poems). I Was So Much Older Then (novel), and The Measure of Everything (novel).
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| April 17, 2008 Ethan Fischer |
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| Ethan Fischer teaches creative writing at Shepherd University and edits Antietam Review as well as Sans Merci. He chairs the New Appalachian Writers Fiction Award Committee (which has brought Fred Chappell, Denise Giardina, and Skip Gates to Shepherd as writers in residence). Ethan Fischer’s book BEACHED IN THE HOURGLASS was published by the Bunny and Crocodile Press. His poetry and prose have appeared in periodicals and books including Wild Sweet Notes, POETRY, Pembroke Magazine, Potomac Review, Dickinsonian, and the WPFW Poetry Anthology (between Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg). He also serves as a radio news anchor with WRNR and as a workshop presenter at West Virginia Writers conferences. His work was featured in the recent gallery show “Works on Walls” in Charles Town and as part of the poetry plus jazz series at Hagerstown’s Museum of Fine Arts; he performs spoken word at concerts with musician John Bardi. Ethan Fischer helped establish Shepherdstown’s Sotto Voce Poetry Festival, and he performs his trademark Johnny Dime, the Poet of Crime mystery series on the long-running Rumsey Radio Hour.
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For more information contact Rob Merritt, Professor of English at Bluefield College: rmerritt@bluefield.edu or 276-326-4270.
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