FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 10, 2003

CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119

DRAKE WRITERS AND CRITICS SERIES TO FEATURE A POET, AN AUTHOR OF A MEMOIR AND A STUDENT READING

The Drake University Writers and Critics Series will feature a reading by Myung Mi Kim, author of five poetry collections and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17. The reading will be held in the Honors Lounge in Medbury Hall, 1317 28th St.

Kim is the author of "Commons," University of California Press (2002); "Spelt," a+bend press (2000); "Dura," Sun & Moon Press (1998); "The Bounty," Chax Press (1996); and "Under Flag," Kelsey St. Press (1991). Her poems have appeared in such journals as Conjunctions, Sulfur, Avec, Hambone and Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. Kim's work also has been anthologized in "Premonitions: Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry," from Talisman House, and "Asian American Literature," as part of the Literary Mosaic Series From HarperCollins.

In addition, the Writers and Critics Series will bring Drake graduate and author Barbara Robinettte Moss to Drake to give the Paul Morrison Relays Lecture at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 26, in Bulldog Theater in Olmsted Center, 29th Street and University Avenue. Moss is the author of "Change Me into Zeus's Daughter," a memoir in which she chronicles the heart-breaking story of how her family survived the tyranny of her alcoholic father.

The Writers and Critics series will conclude with the Periphery Literary Journal Opening and Reading at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Parents Hall South in Olmsted Center. The event will feature artwork and readings by students whose work is published in Periphery, Drake's annual art and literary journal. The reading will begin at 8 p.m.

All events in the Writers and Critics Series are free and open to the public. For more information on any of the events, contact Carol Spaulding at (515) 271-3969 or carol.spaulding@drake.edu.