GRANVILLE - Denison University will host Ohio Poetry Circuit speaker Judith Hall at 8 p.m. on Wednesday (Oct. 16) in Slayter Hall's Faculty Lounge. This Beck Lecture Series convocation is free and open to the public.

Judith Hall

Hall is the author ofTo Put The Mouth Towhich was selected for the National Poetry Series, andAnatomy, Errata, winner of the Ohio State University Press publication award. She is a visiting writer at California Institute of Technology and has served as poetry editor ofThe Antioch Reviewsince 1995.

Hall is the recipient of many awards including an Individual Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ohio State University Press Poetry Award in 1997, a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation in 1984 and the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 1992.

Hall earned her bachelor's degree (1973) from Clark University, a fine arts diploma (1976) from Corcoran School of Art and her master's degree (1979) from Johns Hopkins University.

Hall's poems have appeared in numerous publications including the New Republic, Best American Poetry, Paris Review and Yale Review and she has taught at several universities including Loyola College, St. Mary's College and UCLA.

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