Poet Rodney Jones to host reading, Oct. 10

Poet Rodney Jones will share his work during a reading at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 10 in Yeager Recital Hall, located in the Center for the Arts on campus.

Jones has written seven books, including “The Kingdom of the Instant” and “Elegy for the Southern Drawl.” He is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Jean Stein Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jones, who earned a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, teaches at Southern Illinois University.

Sponsored by the English department, Jones’ reading is free and open to the public.

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