Denison's Beck Series Presents Mark Halliday

Date of Event: November 10, 2008

Posted: September 25, 2008 / Last Updated: November 4, 2008

Mark Halliday

Denison’s Creative Writing Program will host poet and critic Mark Halliday at 8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, in the Barney-Davis Hall Board Room (200 West Loop), as part of the Harriet Ewens Beck Fund Visiting Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Halliday is a professor in the creative writing program at Ohio University. He has published several books of poems as well as numerous essays on the poetry of others. He has received a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award, the Rome Prize in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville — Harriet Ewens Beck Fund Visiting Writers Series poet and critic Mark Halliday at 8 p.m. on Mon., Nov. 10, in the Barney-Davis Hall Board Room (200 West Loop). Free and open to the public. Contact 740-587-6331.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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