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New book honors retired SUNY Potsdam Mohawk writer-in-residence

Posted 10/31/11

POTSDAM -- SUNY Press has published a volume honoring Maurice Kenny, the recently retired longtime writer-in-residence at SUNY Potsdam. Entitled "Maurice Kenny: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer," the …

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New book honors retired SUNY Potsdam Mohawk writer-in-residence

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POTSDAM -- SUNY Press has published a volume honoring Maurice Kenny, the recently retired longtime writer-in-residence at SUNY Potsdam.

Entitled "Maurice Kenny: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer," the book is edited by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey of the University of Colorado.

Born in Cape Vincent, and the author of dozens of books of poetry, fiction and essays, Kenny portrays the unique experience of Native New York and tells its history with poetic figures who live and breathe in the present.

To find out more or to purchase the volume, visit www.sunypress.edu/p-5252-maurice-kenny.aspx.