[Yale-readings] 3-11, 5pm: JIM DANIELS READS AT CCSU

[Nancy Kuhl]

JIM DANIELS READS AT CCSU
Tuesday, March 11th, 5:00 pm at CCSU BOOKSTORE
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC


CCSU Bookstore
Student Center
105 Ella Grasso Blvd.
New Britain, CT 06053

  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
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:
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.


Here¹s a great 
interview:  http://www.wooster.edu/ArtfulDodge/interviews/daniels.htm

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