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JIM DANIELS READS AT CCSU<br>
Tuesday, March 11th, 5:00 pm at CCSU BOOKSTORE<br>
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC<br>
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CCSU Bookstore<br>
Student Center<br>
105 Ella Grasso Blvd.<br>
New Britain, CT 06053<br>
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Jim Daniels won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize for his book, Revolt of
the Crash-Test Dummies (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007). Two
other books were published in 2007, his third collection of short
fiction, Mr. Pleasant (Michigan State University Press), and his eleventh
book of poems, In Line for the Exterminator (Wayne State University
Press). In 2005, Jim Daniels wrote and produced the independent film
³Dumpster,² and Street, a<br>
book of his poems accompanying the photographs of Charlee Brodsky, won
the Tillie Olsen Prize from the Working-Class Studies Association. In
addition, he has edited or co-edited four anthologies, including Letters
to America:<br>
Contemporary American Poetry on Race, and American Poetry: The Next
Generation. He has received the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart
Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Thomas Stockman
Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he
directs the Creative Writing Program. At Carnegie Mellon, he has received
the Ryan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Elliott Dunlap Smith
Award for Teaching and Educational Service.<br><br>
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Here¹s a great interview:
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http://www.wooster.edu/ArtfulDodge/interviews/daniels.htm<br>
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