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Contact:
Mary Kate Keith,
NCSU Libraries, 919/515-2841
Oct.
21, 2003
Friends
of the Libraries’ Fall Luncheon Features NC State
Poet
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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John Balaban, poet-in-residence
and professor of English
in the Creative
Writing Program at North Carolina State University,
will be the guest speaker at the Friends of the
Libraries’ annual Fall Luncheon, scheduled
for noon on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in the McKimmon
Center. His talk, entitled “Poetry Passports,”
will focus on his poetry and his award-winning
translations of Vietnamese poetry.
The 15th annual NCSU Libraries
Faculty Award will also be presented during the
luncheon. The award is given to an NC State faculty
member who has contributed consistently or notably
to the operation and development of the Libraries.
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John
Balaban
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Balaban is the award-winning author
of 12 books of poetry and prose. He has received the
Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize, a National Poetry
Series Selection, and two nominations for the National
Book Award. His book “Locusts at the Edge of Summer:
New and Selected Poems” won the 1998 William Carlos
William Award from the Poetry Society of America. Balaban
also served as past president of the American Literary
Translators Association. He received his B.A. from Penn
State University and his M.A. from Harvard University.
Balaban, who received a prestigious
Guggenheim Fellowship in April, is using the opportunity
to write poetry and begin a new English translation
of Nyugen Du’s classic, “The Tale of Kieu,”
a 19th-century novel-in-verse that is the hallmark of
Vietnamese poetry.
For
ticket information, call the Friends of the Library
at 919/515-2841, Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4
p.m. For more information on the Fall Luncheon, visit
the Friends’ Web
site.
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Raleigh,
NC 27695
