Roberts Wesleyan College
Cultural Life Fall 2003 Lecture Series
Friday, October 17, 2003, 4:00 pm
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“Write to the Heart” a reading of recent Dr. Bruce SweetWriter and Educator Incoming Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing |
This “introductory” reading will include recently published, award-winning original work—poetry: “Moose In Winter,” “One Thing I Like About Jesus,” “February 14th,” and “Epiphany,”—prose: excerpts from “The Essential Existential Lunch” and “Fat Chance and Warren-Bird” and a short question and answer period about the craft of writing.
BRUCE SWEET’S work has appeared in such texts as BLUELINE, COMMONWEAL, LAKE EFFECT, MILKWEED EDITIONS: Contemporary Poems About Music, MINNESOTA MONTHLY, NAPALM HEALTH SPA, YANKEE and in five chapbooks. His recent teaching includes writer-in-residence, Saint John Fisher College (Part-time Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 1997–1998) and Writers & Books (Teacher of the Year for Adults, 1997). ARCHAEOLOGY, a volume of poetry, and two chapbooks, A DREAM OF ANIMALS and THIS IS A GOOD THING, are planned for 2004. Sweet’s “WHAT’S THE WORD?” program celebrating local, national and international poets, can be heard on Rochester’s NPR station WXXI 91.5 and 90.3 FM.
Welcome! Please Join Us!
Ø An informal reception precedes each lecture in the Smith Science Center lobby, 3:45 pm
Ø All lectures are free and open to the public. Lectures are presented in the Smith Science Center Auditorium at 4:00pm unless otherwise noted.
Ø For more information contact Dr. David Barnes (dbarnes@roberts.edu or 594-6342) or call 594-6310.