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| Reading and Book Signing by Walter Bargen, Missouri Poet Laureate |
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| Start Date: | 4/9/2008 | Start Time: | 3:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/9/2008 | End Time: | 4:30 PM |
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Event Description
Celebrate National Poetry Month. Attend a reading
and signing by Walter Bargen, the first Poet Laureate of Missouri. As the Poet Laureate, Mr. Bargen is responsible for promoting the arts in Missouri and for composing an original poem in honor of Missouri.
Mr. Bargen, 59 of Ashland, has published nine books and two chapbooks of poems over the last 28 years. Among his work is The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences, which won the 2005 William Rockhill Nelson Award for best poetry book by a Missouri writer. His work has appeared in more than 100 magazine publications, and he has received a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship along with various other awards.
This event is free and open to the public.
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