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Reading Series Starts Sept. 21

SEPT. 16, 2005--The UW-RF Reading Series presents Freya Manfred on Friday, Sept. 21 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chalmer Davee Library Breezeway.

Author Freya Manfred will read from her collection poetry titled, "My Only Home, and her literary memoirs, Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers."

Manfred is widely published, with poems in more than 75 magazines and reviews in more than 25 anthologies. "Frederick Manfred: A Daughter Remembers," her literary memoir, was a Minnesota Book Award nominee and an Iowa Historical Society Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award nominee. She has taught advanced poetry at both the University of Minnesota and the University of South Dakota and has presented creative writing workshops or poetry Harvard University, Gustavus Adolphus, and Macalester College and other schools.

The reading is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact English professor Jenny Brantley at 715/425-3173 or Lindsey Decker at Lindsey.a.decker@uwrf.edu .

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Last updated: Monday, 19-Sep-2005 11:10:09 CDT