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4/20 Westminster Poetry Series Presents Ellipsis Debut and Free Poetry Reading

Nationally acclaimed poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain presents 2011 issue of Westminster’s Ellipsis

 

Contact:  Krista DeAngelis and Arikka Von (801) 832-2682
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                             
March 20, 2012


 

SALT LAKE CITY  Westminster College hosts the 2011 Ellipsis debut with a free reading by poet Fiona Sze-Lorrain as part of the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. The event will take place on April 20, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Dumke Student Theatre in the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory.

In publication since 1966, Ellipsis is one of a few nationally recognized literary magazines produced by undergraduate students. The magazine features poetry, prose and art by national (and occasionally, international) authors and artists, as well as by students. Selections from this new issue will be read by the magazine staff and Martha Silano.

Martha Silano is the author of three books of poetry--What the Truth Tastes Like, Blue Positive, and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, chosen by Campbell McGrath as the winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize.  Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, American Poetry Review, Ellipsis, and The Best American Poetry 2009, among others.  Martha teaches at Bellevue College, near her home in Seattle, WA.

A book signing sponsored by Sam Weller’s Bookstore will follow the reading.  For more information, please contact Natasha Sajé, professor of English, at (801) 832-2376 or nsaje@westminstercollege.edu.

 

WHO:             Poet Martha Silano

 

WHAT:          Ellipsis Debut and Free Poetry Reading

 

WHERE:        Westminster College
Dumke Student Theatre, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT

 

WHEN:          April 20, 2012
7 p.m.

 

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