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Clark to give March 10 poetry reading at Union

George David Clark
George David Clark

JACKSON, Tenn.March 4, 2016 — Poet George David Clark will give a reading at Union University on March 10.

The reading is part of the schedule of events for Union’s 24th annual Creative Writing Workshop for West Tennessee high school students.

The author of “Reveille” (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize from the University of Arkansas Press), Clark’s recent poems can be found or are forthcoming in publications such as AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Believer, Blackbird, Cincinnati Review, Yale Review and elsewhere.

After earning a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Virginia and a Doctor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University, Clark held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Poetry at Colgate University and later the Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship at Valparaiso University.

A 2005 Union graduate, he has received additional honors from Southern Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The current editor-in-chief of “32 Poems,” Clark teaches creative writing and literature as an assistant professor at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.

The reading will begin at 1 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium, located in the Barefoot Student Union building. A book signing will follow.

The reading is free and open to the public.


Media contact: Tim Ellsworth, news@uu.edu, 731-661-5215