Upcoming Reading, April 10: Ciaran Berry

The Visiting Writers Series and Crab Orchard Review present a reading by
CIARAN BERRY

Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:00 PM, SIUC Student Center Auditorium

This reading celebrates the publication of Ciaran Berry's new book, The Sphere of Birds, published this year by Southern Illinois University Press in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. The reading is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow in the Old Main Lounge.

Ciaran Berry's first collection of poems, The Sphere of Birds, was released this spring in North America by Southern Illinois University Press and in Ireland by Gallery Press. His poem "Electrocuting an Elephant" was selected to appear in the Best American Poetry 2008 by Charles Wright. He is from the northwest of Ireland and he teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.

More about The Sphere of Birds:
SIU Press