Sept. 1, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Peter Bailley

Poet Wyatt Prunty to Read at Knox

Poet Wyatt Prunty will give a reading at Knox College on Friday, Sept. 15 at 4:00 pm in the Common Room of Old Main.

Prunty is the author of a number of books of poetry, including Balance as Belief and What Women Know, What Men Believe, both published by Johns Hopkins. His most recent collection is Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, published by Johns Hopkins in 1999. He is also the author of "Fallen from the Symboled World": Precedents for the New Formalism, a critical study of contemporary poetry.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,220 students from 47 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Writer: Ryan Williams