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   from the issue of April 8, 2004

     
 
West will read works April 14

Author Kathleene West will read from her latest book, The Summer of the Sub-Comandante, at 7:30 p.m. April 14 in the Dudley Bailey Library, 229 Andrews Hall.

West grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received her doctorate in English and Icelandic studies at UNL. She is professor of poetry at New Mexico State University and the poetry editor of Puerto del Sol. She lived for two years in Iceland on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has published one book of short fiction and eight books of poetry. Her last book of poetry, Romance tercermundista/Third World Romance, a bilingual book translated by the author, Jesus J. Barquet and others, was published in Santiago de Cuba in 2000. With Barquet, she translates Cuban and Dominican poetry and gives bilingual readings.

This reading, sponsored by the UNL English Department and the creative writing program, is free and open to the public. For more information call Grace Bauer at 472-0993.


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