The University of Redlands Visiting Writers Series
The Creative Writing Department is pleased to announce its third Visiting Writers Series event of Spring 2012, the Edith R. White Reading with poet Mark Cox.
Mark Cox has published three books of poetry: Smoulder, Thirty-seven Years from the Stone, and Natural Causes; and one chapbook, Barbells of the Gods. He recently edited a posthumous book of poetry by Jack Myers entitled The Memory of the Water. He has a 25-year publication history in magazines such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, North American Review, New England Review, Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, and in over 25 anthologies. David Wojahn says of his book Natural Causes, “There’s a gravity and a sorrowful wisdom in Mark Cox’s new poems that make the work of most of the other poets of his generation seem frivolous. . . . He knows that the principal business of the lyric is heartbreak and understands that our stories are personal and communal at once.”
Mark Cox teaches in the Vermont College MFA Program and in the Department of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, where he served as founding chair. His honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize, and numerous fellowships.
Please join us for a reading by Mark Cox on Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 in Hall of Letters 100, to be followed by a reception and book signing with the author. This event is free and open to the public.
The Visiting Writers Series will continue on April 12 with the Senior Portfolio/Redlands Review Reading, our annual student presentation.
For more information please contact the Creative Writing Department at (909) 748-8260