UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Welcomes Donald Revell and Joel Brouwer

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host authors Dr. Donald Revell, professor of English and creative writing at the University of Utah, and Joel Brouwer, assistant professor of poetry at UA, on Jan. 16, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Hall Auditorium on The University of Alabama campus.

Revell is a Coal Royalty Chairholder in Creative Writing at UA for the spring 2003 semester. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including “There Are Three,” “Beautiful Shirt,” and “Erasures.” His most recent collection is “Arcady.” His poems were included in three separate volumes of “Best American Poetry.”

Revell’s translation of Guillame Apollinaire’s poems, “Alcools,” was published in 1995. His essays have appeared in more than 20 publications nationally.

He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry.

Brouwer’s first book of poems, “Exactly What Happened” won the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and the Larry Levis Reading Prize. His second collection, “Centuries,” will be published in March 2003. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University and has held fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, the department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766 or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.