Two Readings Celebrate Kestrel's Latest Issue

On Sept. 11 and 12, Kestrel, Fairmont State University's literature and art journal, will celebrate the publication of Issue 22 with readings by contributors. 

Poets Marion Brown, Rob Merritt and Ellen McGrath Smith and fiction writers Roger Pincus and Marie Manilla will read from their work from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11, in the Brooks Gallery of Wallman Hall. Refreshments will be served. On Saturday, Sept. 12, from 2-4 p.m. at the Book Shelf in Morgantown, fiction writer Monica Rausch and poets Rick Campbell, Kaite Hillenbrand and Robert Wallace will perform. Admission to both events is free and open to the public.

Kestrel has been publishing poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, translations and visual art since 1993. Last spring the Anniversary Anthology issue featured more than 70 writers from Issues 13 to 19, including Gail Galloway Adams, Dave Smith, Eamon Grennan, Irene McKinney, Maxine Kumin, Stephen Dunn, Lucille Clifton and James Harms. Chuck Wyrostock, Janet McKenzie and Louise Lamar-Fuller are among the artists and photographers included in the Anthology.

Issue 22, also published in spring 2009, features the work of more than 20 writers and photography by Timothy Berg. For information, contact Donna Long, Associate Professor of English and Kestrel Editor, at dlong@fairmontstate.edu or (304) 367-4180.