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Jeanine Hathaway Poetry Reading
Apr 21, 2009The Hutchinson/Reno Arts and Humanities Council, alongside the Language, Literature, and Communications Department of Hutchinson Community College, will be presenting a poetry reading by accomplished author Jeanine Hathaway on April 23, 2009.
Jeanine Hathaway is a native of Chicago, the oldest of a large working-class Catholic family. She entered the Dominican order in 1963. After nine years, she left the convent, received an MFA from Bowling Green State University, married, and had a daughter. She has been teaching literature and writing at Wichita State University since 1974. Her autobiographical novel, Motherhouse, was published in 1992. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including DoubleTake, Image, Poetry Northwest, Best Spiritual Writing 2000, and Keener Sounds: Selected Poems from the Georgia Review. Her volume of poems, The Self as Constellation, was the 2001 winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. She lives in Wichita, Kansas.
Short reading and Q&A 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23
Parker Library, Stringer Fine Arts Center
and, that evening, a reading at the
Hutchinson Art Center
405 N. Washington
7:00 p.m.
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