Poet David St. John to Give Reading as Part of UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Poet David St. John will give a reading Tuesday, Sept. 26, in the Bama Theatre at 7:30 p.m. as part of The University of Alabama Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.

David St. John teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he is director of the doctoral program in literature and creative writing. He is the author of nine collections of poetry, most recently “The Face,” as well as a volume of essays, interviews and reviews entitled “Where the Angels Come Toward Us.” His first book, “Hush,” was selected by Jonathan Galassi to initiate Houghton Mifflin’s New Poets Series.

Over the years, St. John has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rome Prize and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.

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

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.