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Award-winning poet to deliver reading

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Award-winning poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar will give a reading Thursday at UALR.

There will be a reception at 6 p.m. with a reading at 6:30 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Center, room 205 D. A book signing will follow. This event is presented by the William G. Cooper Jr. Honors Program and Equinox.

Photo courtesy Laure-Anne Bosselaar.com
Photo courtesy Laure-Anne Bosselaar.com

For more information on the event, which is free and open to the public, contact Professor Nickole Brown at lnbrown@ualr.edu.

Laure-Anne Bosselaar, raised in Belgium, is the author of “The Hour Between the Dog and the Wolf” and “Small Gods of Grief,” which won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry.

Her most recent collection, “A New Hunger,” was selected as a Notable Book for 2008.

Bosselaar is a graduate of the Warren Wilson Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers, and she has taught poetry workshops at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence, and at conferences across the U.S.

She is also an anthologist and an editor translating American poetry into French and Flemish.

She and her late husband, the poet Kurt Brown, published “The Plural of Happiness: Select Poems by Herman de Coninck” with The Field Translation Series at Oberlin College Press.

She teaches at the College of Creative Studies at University of California Santa Barbara and is part of the founding faculty at the low-residency MFA at Pine Manor College in Boston.