Robin Behn to Read as Part of Bankhead Writers Series at UA

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama professor Robin Behn will read from her work on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Morgan Hall Auditorium, as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama. The event is free and open to the public.

Behn is director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. She will give a reading from “Horizon Note,” her new book of poems. The reading will include a work for dancers choreographed by Associate Professor of Dance Cornelius Carter. “Horizon Note,” Behn’s third book of poems, was the winner of the 2001 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and was published this fall by The University of Wisconsin Press.

Behn was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999 to complete her book. Previously, she has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Behn’s new book explores the uneasy “horizons” of premature birth and lingering death and inquires into the nature and purpose of music.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s program in creative writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.