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James Galvin to read in The River Readings at Augustana
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Press release submitted by Augustana College James Galvin to Read in The River Readings at Augustana (Augustana College, Rock Island, IL) –Poet, prose writer, and novelist James Galvin reads from his work in The River Readings at Augustana on Thursday, October 1. A native of Wyoming, where he still ranches half of the year, James Galvin has published seven books of poems, most recently As Is (Copper Canyon Press, 2009). His new and collected poems, Resurrection Update (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Poet's Prize. His second book was a National Poetry Series winner. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow (Henry Holt, 1992), and a novel, Fencing the Sky (Henry Holt, 1999). His honors include a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Galvin is a member of the faculty at the Iowa Writers" Workshop. In Library Journal, Barbara Hoffert wrote of Galvin"s latest collection of poetry As Is: "Bleak and unsentimental but blessedly free of self-indulgence, these poems give the feeling of being absolutely essential and of including only what is really there to include." Of his collection X, Carol Moldaw in The Antioch Review wrote: "The poems are less in search of clues than they are given over to the task of mapping out--possessing--the terrain. That they do this with romantic intensity, linguistic inventiveness, and interrogative, riffing wit, only serves to foreground Galvin's complex, fine music." Six yearling colts come up To nuzzle her and get their carrots. Beyond her, snowy mountains And the sunset detonating A tree-shaped cloud. I watch from the doorway, And for a minute, maybe longer, Everything That threatens us Threatens to save us. (from "Two Sketches of Horses," As Is) The reading is free and open to the public and takes place Thursday, October 1, at 7:00 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall, inside the Denkmann building (3520 7th Ave.) on the Augustana College campus. A reception follows the reading. The River Readings at Augustana is sponsored by the Institute for Leadership and Service, the Thomas Tredway Library, and the English Department at Augustana College. The River Readings at Augustana calendar: January 21, Robyn Schiff and Nick Twemlow, poetry February 4, Richard Katrovas, poetry, fiction, and memoir March 18, Chris Offutt, fiction and memoir April 15, Daniel Woodrell, fiction 
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