Poet Janet Sylvester, Thornton Writer-in-Residence at Lynchburg College, will read from her work February 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alumni House Lounge. A reception and book signing will follow. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Richard H. Thornton Endowment and the English Department.
Sylvester is the author of The Mark of Flesh (Norton), That Mulberry Wine (Wesleyan) and Visitor at the Gate. She has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize, a PEN Discovery Award, a DeWitt Wallace/ Reader's Digest Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in many anthologies and journals, including Best American Poetry, The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, Boulevard, Harvard Review, Georgia Review, Poetry Daily, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Sylvester is teaching at Lynchburg College for the spring semester. She has had numerous guest residencies and fellowships to Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Va. One of the founding faculty of Lesley University's low-residency MFA program in creative writing in Cambridge, Mass., she also teaches part time at Harvard and works with inner-city high school students in Boston.
For more information, call 544-8690.