GSW convocation to feature poet Lesley Dauer April 5

AMERICUS (March 22, 2017) – Poet Lesley Dauer will deliver a lecture at Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) on Wednesday, April 5 in Jackson Hall.

The event is free and open to the public.

Dauer, a professor of English and Creative Writing at Foothill College in California, has had her poetry featured in many journals including “Boulevard,” “Grand Street,” and “Poetry,” and anthologies, including “American Poetry: The Next Generation (CMUP).”

Her first book of poems, “The Fragile City,” won a Bluestem Award. She also received the 2014 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry from Mercer University for her submission entitled “Carnival Life.”

Dauer received degrees from Middlebury College, The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard.

The convocation has been made possible thanks to the support of The Department of English and Modern Languages, the Dean’s Office of The College of Arts and Sciences, the Women’s Literary Club of Americus and the Sumter County Friends of the Public Library.

For more information, contact the Department of English and Modern Languages at (229) 931-2197.