Elizabethtown College hosts award-winning poet March 22

Katy Didden, a 'Best New Poet 2009,' reads from her work

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Katy Didden reads from her poetry at Elizabethtown College.

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (02/26/2011)(readMedia)-- Elizabethtown College welcomes poet Katy Didden, who will give a public reading of her poetry at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the Brinser Lecture Room in the College's Steinman Center. The reading is sponsored by the English department; admission is free.

Katy Didden earned a master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is pursuing her Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, where she serves as poetry editor for "The Missouri Review." She has poems published or forthcoming in journals such as "The Kenyon Review," "Crazyhorse," "Shenandoah," "Smartish Pace," "Image," "Poetry" and "The Best New Poets 2009." Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has won an Academy of American Poets Prize and two Dorothy Sargent prizes. Verse Daily chose her poem "Nest" as a "Favorite of 2009."

The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of our annual collections. Writers who were first noticed here include: Raymond Carver, Tim O'Brien, Jayne Anne Phillips, Charles Baxter, Andre Dubus, Susan Minot, Mona Simpson, John Irving, Rick Moody, and many more. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series.

Contact: Carmine Sarracino at sarracct@etown.edu.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed institution offering more than four dozen liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education degrees. Through personal attention, creative inspiration and academic challenge, Elizabethtown College students are encouraged to expand their intellectual curiosity and are given the opportunity to become an important part of the bigger world through experiential learning-research, internships and study abroad. Elizabethtown College's overall commitment to Educate for Service is fulfilled as students are taught intellectually, socially, aesthetically and ethically for lives of service and leadership.

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