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State Poet Laureate Next OWS Presenter
Oklahoma Poet Laureate
Benjamin Myers will be visiting two sites for a poetry reading and writing
workshop in Southern Oklahoma as the latest presenter in Murray State College’s
free public Oklahoma Writers Series on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
The 2015-2016 state
Poet Laureate will read from his award-winning books during a brown-bag
meet-the-poet event, “Oklahoma Poems,” from noon until 1:15 p.m. at the
Johnston County Library in downtown Tishomingo. He will then present a poetry
writing workshop, “Making Poetry from Your Memories,” at the Champion Public
Library in Ardmore (formerly Chickasaw Library System) from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
He will have books on hand at both sites to sell and autograph. Both events are
free to the public.
Myers is the 2015-2016
Poet Laureate of the State of Oklahoma and the author of two books of
poetry: Lapse Americana (New York Quarterly Books, 2013)
and Elegy for Trains (Village Books Press, 2010). His poems
have been published in The Yale Review, The New York
Quarterly, 32 Poems, The Christian Century, Nimrod, Tupelo
Quarterly, Image, and other journals. He was awarded the Oklahoma Book
Award from the Oklahoma Center for the Book and a Tennessee Williams
Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His prose appears in World
Literature Today, Books and Culture, and other magazines. Myers
teaches poetry writing and literature at Oklahoma Baptist University, where he
is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Literature.
This program is
co-sponsored by the Murray State College Language Arts Department, MSC
Oklahoma Writers Series, and the Oklahoma Arts Council. For more information,
contact Oklahoma Writers Series coordinator Sharon Burris at (580)
220-2878.
Oklahoma Poet Laureate
Prof. Benjamin Myers/Photo courtesy Benjamin Myers
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