Poets Catie Rosemurgy & Reginald Shepherd to Read at the Black Warrior Review Benefit

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Poets Catie Rosemurgy and Reginald Shepherd will read from their original poetry work at The University of Alabama on Tuesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall for the third annual Black Warrior Review Benefit Reading.

Donations will be taken at the door to benefit the Black Warrior Review; suggested donations are $3 for students and $8 for the general public.

Rosemurgy is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UA. She is the author of a book of poems titled “My Favorite Apocalypse,” published in June 2001 by Graywolf Press. She has published poems in numerous journals including Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Michigan Quarterly Review and The Best American Poetry 1997. She currently teaches at Northwest Missouri State University, where she is co-editor of the Laurel Review.

Shepherd’s third book, “Wrong,” was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1999. The University of Pittsburgh Press published his first book, “Some Are Drowning”, in 1994 as the winner of the 1993 AWP Award in Poetry. His second book, “Angel, Interrupted,” was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1996. Shepherd has a fourth book, “Otherhood,” forthcoming from Pittsburgh. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

The Black Warrior Review is a nationally respected literary magazine that publishes the best in contemporary fiction, poetry, and essays from both established and emerging writers. Started in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Creative Writing Program at UA, the BWR has published work from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, and stories and poems that have appeared in BWR have been reprinted in the Puschart Prize, Best American Short Stories and Poems, and New Stories from the South anthologies. Each issue features a chapbook, a selection of poetry, from a nationally known poet.

For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.