UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series to Feature Kathryn Starbuck and Theresa Pappas

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Poets Kathryn Starbuck and Theresa Pappas will give readings Thursday, March 2, in 205 Smith Hall at 7:30 p.m. as part of the ongoing University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.

A Baltimore native, Pappas’ first collection of poems, Flash Paper, won the Minnesota Voices Project Competition. Her work has received literary awards from the Iowa Arts Council, Iowa Woman magazine and the Florida Poetry Contest. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Company twice. Her poems have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Poetry East, The Antioch Review and other journals. She has taught at Tufts University and Iowa State University.

Starbuck’s poems appear in The New Republic, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, AGNI, Odyssey, The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association and elsewhere. She is the editor, with Elizabeth Meese, of two volumes of her late husband George Starbuck’s poems. She is a former political journalist and essayist and was the longtime editor of “The Milford (N.H.) Cabinet” newspaper. She lives in Tuscaloosa.

The reading is free and open to the public. A reception is to follow.

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, contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766, or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.

The College of Arts and Sciences is the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state. Students from the College have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.