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St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series kicks off season with Angie Estes tonight

Posted 9/17/15

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series kicks off its season with author and poet Angie Estes at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Sykes Common Room, located on Park Street across …

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St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series kicks off season with Angie Estes tonight

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Writer’s Series kicks off its season with author and poet Angie Estes at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, in the Sykes Common Room, located on Park Street across from the Brewer Bookstore.

The event is free and open to the public.

Estes is the author of five books, most recently Enchantée (Oberlin College Press, 2013), winner of the 2015 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize.

Her previous book, Tryst (Oberlin, 2009), was selected as one of two finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize. Her second book, Voice-Over (Oberlin, 2002), won the 2001 FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Uses of Passion (1995), was the winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize.

Among her many awards is a Guggenheim fellowship.

The Writer’s Series is sponsored by St. Lawrence’s Department of English.

For more info or a complete list of visiting writers, visit the Department of English or call 229-5125.