Featured Writers for Spring 2007:
Scott Ward & Wayne Cox
Tuesday, March 27
7:00 Watkins 100, Watkins Teaching Center


Scott Ward's first book of poetry from SCOP Publications (1991) is Crucial
Beauty. His second book from Black Bay Books (2006) is Wayward Passages.
His poems have appeared in Christian Century, Southern Humanities Review,
Shenandoah, and many other journals and anthologies. He lives in
St. Petersburg, Florida with his wife, Jana, and his sons, Caleb and Garland.
He teaches poetry writing in the creative writing department at Eckerd
College. He has served as poetry editor of Southern Humanities Review
and is currently an assistant editor for Shenandoah. Professor Ward's
other interests are translating Latin texts, the history of the Bible,
and aviation.

Wayne Cox was born in Portland, Maine. He earned a Ph.D. from USC and
is a Professor of English at Anderson University, where he holds the Daniel
Endowed Chair of English. A recipient of Fulbright and NEA fellowships, his
work has appeared in such places as Poetry, Shenandoah, Chelsea, and Stand.
With his wife, Lourdes Manyé, he published Vacation Notebook (Lang, 1996),
a translation of Quadern de Vacances, by the Catalan poet Miquel Martí i Pol.
His second book, The Things We Leave Behind (2000) was published by
Ninety-Six Press. He lives in Greenville with his wife and daughters.

Join us Tuesday, March 27, at 7:00 p.m. in Room 100, Watkins Teaching Center. For more information, contact the Anderson University Department of English at (864) 231-2155.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Scott Ward
Author of
Wayward Passages

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