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UC Lunch Hour to Host AwardWinning Poet in Special Evening Performance

April Bernard Reads Sept. 30

Written By Victoria Cruz-Griffith '12, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (09/15/2011) - Consider it a late lunch.
 
The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series will be held at a special time on Friday, Sept. 30. Instead of taking place at 12:30 p.m., the reading will be held at 7 p.m. in the Economic Crime and Justice Studies Carbone Family Auditorium.

Poet April Bernard will be reading at this special evening event. A New England native, she studied at Harvard University. She moved to New York City to work in a publishing agency after earning a bachelor’s degree. There she worked as a senior editor for Vanity Fair. She left publishing to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University.

Her first book, Blackbird Bye Bye, was chosen as the winner of the 1989 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. He other books include Romanticism, Swan Electric, Psalms and Pirate Jenny.

Bernard has taught at Amherst College, Baruch College and Bennington College. She is currently at member of the faculty at Bennington for the MFA program. She also serves as the director of creative writing at Skidmore College.

The Jackson Lunch Hour Series presents a series of musical and literary programs each semester. Literary programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

The Jackson Lunch Hour Series presents a series of musical and literary programs each semester. All programs are free of charge and are open to the public. Sponsored by the college’s Social Cultural Committee, all programs begin at 12:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Musical performances are held in the Library Concourse. Literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium unless otherwise noted. For more information on the series and on the performances, visit http://www.utica.edu/academic/as/culture/jackson/index.cfm