Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Mary Jo Bang @ Roosevelt University



Roosevelt University
Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Avenue
Tuesday, April 27, 5 - 6 p.m.


Mary Jo Bang


Bang is the author of six collections of poems, including Louise in Love, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon and Elegy. Her poetry has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Paris Review and in three volumes of Best American Poetry, among other publications. She's been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Bakeless Prize and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

The Gage Gallery Reading Series is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University, Oyez Review and the Department of Literature and Languages. For more information, contact Scott Blackwood at sblackwood@roosevelt.edu.