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#98-03-11
Updated: November, 1999
Contact: Peter Bailley
Robin Metz to Read from Acclaimed Book of Poems, 'Unbidden Angel'
Winter Reading Schedule:
- Nov. 24, 10 a.m. -- University of Barcelona, English Department
- Dec. 15 Time TBA -- University of Bristol, Great Britain
- March 10, 2000, 8 p.m. -- New York City Knox Club, Location TBA (reading by Robin Metz, piano recital by Bruce Polay)
- March 30, 2000, 7 p.m. -- Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, Iowa
- April 15, Time TBA -- Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
- May 25, 2000 Time, location TBA -- San Francisco, California (also with Bruce Polay)
- Oct. 13, 2000, Time TBA -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Robin Metz, Philip Sidney Post Professor of English at Knox College and winner of the Rainer Maria Rilke International Poetry Prize, will read poems from his new book, "Unbidden Angel," at events around the United States, as well as several international venues.
"Unbidden Angel" is "a brilliant explosion of poetry, various and diverse in
form and voice, yet unified in its exploration of grief and desire," wrote advance reviewer
Sheryl St. Germain, a former Knox faculty member currently teaching at Iowa State University.
The book "is an elegy for Robin's wife who died unexpectedly several years
ago," St. Germain wrote. Her review praised Metz for "a broad, yet intimate vision," and
a collection that explores "the experience of grief and survival, transforming
descent into a bounty--in the great tradition of mythic heroes--of music and
epiphany."
Prior events have included:
- March 27 Blue Rider Theatre, Chicago, held in conjunction with presentations based on Metz's texts by The Kandinsky Improvisational Ensemble; Cin Salach and Ten Tongues; and bassist Mitar Mitch Covic.
- April 1, Eastern Illinois University
- April 26-28, Ventura Poetry Festival; Oxnard College
- June 9 - Rainy Day Books, Kansas City
- June 9 - Midwest Bioethics Center, Kansas City
- June 10 - Queens-Bayside Barnes and Noble, Bayside, New York
- June 10 - Gotham Bookmart, New York City
- June 27 - Back Fence, New York City [212-472-9221]
- July-August - Krakow, Prague, Venice, Paris, Warsaw
- Sept. 2, Thurs., 8:30 p.m. -- Bohemian Voices at the Lately Night Club, West Hampstead, England
- Sept. 7, Tues, afternoon, Reading TBA on BBC Radio 4
- Sept. 7, Tues., 6:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. -- Border Books Central, Oxford St., London
- Sept. 7, Tues., 9:30 p.m. -- Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden
"Unbidden Angel" is published by Cross-Cultural Publications in its American
Poets Series. It is available from the Knox College Bookstore by contacting Craig Conolly at cconolly@knox.edu. Copies signed by the author, including a special collectors' edition, are available at the various bookstore readings.
Metz has been a member of the Knox faculty since 1967. He earned his
bachelor's degree at Princeton University and his master's in fine arts at the
University of Iowa Writers Workshop. He has published dozens of poems and
stories in literary journals nationwide and won numerous writing awards and
fellowships. He directs the Creative Writing Program and chairs the English Department at Knox and has taught at the Chicago Arts Program and Chicago Urban Studies Program, both offered by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. He also is a co-founder of Vitalist Theatre of Chicago.
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.
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