Poet Rodney Jones Will Open Writers Series at U of M Feb. 10
For release: Feb. 7, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Rodney Jones, author of six books of poetry, will open the River City Writers Series Monday, Feb. 10, at The University of Memphis. He will give a reading at 8 p.m. in the Fogelman Executive Center, Room 123. A reception will follow the reading.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in the garage adjacent to the Fogelman Executive Center, on Deloach Street just off Central Ave.

Jones is the author of The Story They Told Us of Light, The Unborn, Transparent Gestures, Apocalyptic Narrative, Things That Happen Once and Elegy for the Southern Drawl.

He is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lavan Younger Poets Award, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Excellence, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

A professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Jones earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

For more information, call Cary Holladay at 678-4405

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