UA Hosts Reading by Noted Poets March 27

Akron, Ohio, March 19, 2008 — The University of Akron's Department of English will host a reading by noted poets Jay Hopler and Cate Marvin on Thursday, March 27 at 5 p.m. in the Martin University Center. A book signing and buffet reception will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public.

Jay Hopler has earned degrees from New York University, the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, including Boulevard, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, The Journal, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, The New Yorker, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, Ploughshares, and Xantippe. His book of poems, "Green Squall" (Yale University Press, 2006) was chosen as the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His next book, "The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry," will be published by Yale University Press in 2009. He is assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida.

Cate Marvin's first book, "World's Tallest Disaster," was chosen for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, Ninth Letter and are forthcoming in TriQuarterly. She is co-editor of the anthology "Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century" (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her second book of poems, "Fragment of the Head of a Queen," was published by Sarabande in August 2007. A recent Whiting Award recipient and 2007 NYFA Gregory Millard Fellow, she teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

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