Authors Eimers and Olsen to give poetry reading at Bradley

Peoria, Illinois...March 7, 2003... Authors Nancy Eimers and William Olsen will read from their poetry on April 9, at 7:30 p.m., in the Marty Theatre in the Michel Student Center on the Bradley University campus.

Nancy Eimers is the author of two poetry collections, No Moon, chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt as winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Prize, and Destroying Angel. She has been the recipient of a Nation Discovery award, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, and the 1998 Whiting Writers Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, Best American Poetry 1996, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Field, and Poetry Northwest. She teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University and in the MFA Program at Vermont College.

William Olsen is the author of three poetry collections, The Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers, Vision of a Storm Cloud, and Trouble Lights. He is co-editor, with Sharon Bryan, of Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life. Olsen has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Nation Discovery award, a Breadloaf fellowship, and poetry awards from Poetry Northwest and Crazyhorse. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Republic, Paris Review, Southern Review, New American Poets of the Nineties, and Poets of the New Century. He teaches at Western Michigan University and in the MFA Program at Vermont College.

The reading is part of the Visiting Writer's Series and is free and open to the public. For more information, call Dr. Kevin Stein at (309) 677-2480.