Wednesday, September 17, 2014 @ 7 p.m.
Dave Smith is the author of over 20 books of poetry, fiction
and non-fiction, His recent books include Hawks on Wires (poems, Louisiana
State University, 2011); and Afield: Writers on Bird Dogs (edited with Robert
DeMott, Skyhorse Press, 2010).
Smith has served as editor of The Southern Review, The New Virginia Review and the University of Utah Poets Series. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, twice. He recently joined the writing faculty at the University of Mississippi, after 11 years with Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars program.
Admission to the reading is $3 at the door. Books will be
available for purchase at the event. A reception with book signing follows the
reading. For more information, call the Center for Arts and Letters,
816-501-4607.
