Nationally renowned poet David St. John will be reading at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13 in UC Merced's Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library, Room 355.
St. John will read from his latest book, "The Auroras," which has a number of poems set in the San Joaquin Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The reading, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Karen Merritt Writing Program's Write! Look! Listen! series. The event is being sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the literature faculty.
St. John, a Fresno native, has published 10 books during his career, and has been nominated for the National Book Award. His other prizes include the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award and the prix de Rome fellowship in Literature. St. Johns’ work has appeared in many of the most prestigious literary venues, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Harper’s, Antaeus and Field.
