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News from Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Media contact: Joan Aschim, 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Source: Ellen Cantor, English instructor; Reading Together coordinator,
463-5749.
for release May 4, 2004
Award-winning poet B.H. Fairchild to speak at Lane
EUGENE - Poet B.H. Fairchild will speak at Lane Community College on Thursday May 6, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. in Building 17 (Forum) Room 309. The event is free and open to the public.
Fairchild has won numerous awards, including the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Capricorn Poetry Award, the Beatrice Haley Award, and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. In his book, "The Art of the Lathe," Fairchild “gives voice to working class lives: the factories and farms where they labor; the sandlots and courts where their aging bodies play; the small town coffee shops, feed and hardware stores where they gather,” says Ellen Cantor, English instructor at Lane. “He struggles to negotiate the beauty that resides in these often hard lives -- a beauty that is gritty, industrial, decidedly mortal, and fought for every inch of the way,”
Fairchild’s
visit is an activity of the Reading Together project at Lane, a year-long
collegewide effort to examine racism and related
issues, with activities for students, staff and the community. For more
information, contact Ellen Cantor at 463-5749 or e-mail cantore@lanecc.edu.
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