#97-03-19
For Release: March 24, 1997
Contact: Peter Bailley

Robin Metz, professor of English at Knox College, will read selections from The Reply of the Tongues, his new collection of poetry, at 4 p.m., Friday, March 28, in the Common Room, Old Main, at Knox College. The event is free and open to the public.

Metz is the author of more than 30 published short stories and poems, and has given more than fifty readings nationwide. Among numerous awards and honors, he received a Distinguished Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, the Philip Green Wright-Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching from Knox College, and a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writing Fellows Program Grant from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He has taught at Knox since 1967 and directs the College's noted Creative Writing Program.

The reading is sponsored by the Caxton Club.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.