Ball State University Creative Writing

Visiting Poet:
Maurice Manning

         

            "I've got a secret Boss

             it's burning up my lips . . . "

        

                             ~ from "you spread the nighttime Boss," poem X in Bucolics, 2007

 

Manning’s most recent book is Bucolics (Harcourt, 2007). He is also the author of A Companion for Owls (Harcourt, 2004) and Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, winner of 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and has been featured on National Public Radio. Mr. Manning teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University in Bloomington.


What: Maurice Manning Reading

Where: Bracken Library Rm. 225

When: Monday, March 3, 2007 @ 7:00 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. 
Refreshments will be served. 
 


Read more about Maurice Manning on his Indiana University
faculty profile page