Writer’s Voice Series Features Award-Winning Poet Lynne Knight
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September 6, 2002
Kathleen McPartland
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Writer’s Voice Series Features Award-Winning Poet Lynne Knight
The Writer’s Voice, California State University, Chico, will feature poet Lynne Knight as its first reader in the fall series on Thursday, September 12, 7:30 p.m., University Center.
Knight’s second full-length collection, “The Book of Common Betrayals,” won the Dorothy Brunsman Award from Bear Star Press in 2002. Knight is visiting Chico to read from this collection.
Knight was born in Philadelphia, Penn., and grew up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. She graduated from the University of Michigan and from Syracuse University, where she was a fellow in poetry. After living for a time in Canada, she returned to the United States with her daughter and taught high school English in upstate New York before moving to California in 1990.
Her first collection, “Dissolving Borders,” won a Quarterly Review of Literature prize in 1996 and was published as part of its Contemporary Poets Series. A cycle of poems on Impressionist winter paintings, “Snow Effects,” appeared from Small Poetry Press as part of its Select Poets Series (2000). Her work has appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ontario Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest and Southern Review.
One of her poems appears in “Best American Poetry 2000,” selected by Rita Dove. Among her other awards are the Theodore Roethke Award from Poetry Northwest, the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award from Southern Humanities Review, and the Rosalie Moore Special Award from Blue Unicorn. She lives in Berkeley and teaches writing part-time at two Bay Area community colleges.
Bear Star Press, founded in 1996 by Beth Spencer who lives in Cohasset, Calif., publishes regional poetry from the Mountain and Pacific Time zones, as well as Alaska and Hawaii.
The reading is free and the public is invited. Knight will also sign books at the reading. For more information about Knight’s “The Book of Uncommon Betrayals” and Bear Star Press, visit the website.
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