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October 19, 2007

WRITERS@GRINNELL SERIES CONTINUES IN NOVEMBER

Grinnell College’s Writers@Grinnell program will continue in November with readings by three poets and nonfiction writers. Writers scheduled to read at Grinnell during November include:

Nov. 2, 4:15 p.m.: Nonfiction writer, poet, and teacher Judith Tannenbaum will read from her book, “Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin.” Tannenbaum’s reading, which coincides with a prison education conference on the Grinnell campus, draws on her teaching experience in California’s Arts-in-Corrections program. A former public school teacher, Tannenbaum is currently a training coordinator for San Francisco’s WritersCorps program.

Nov. 9, 8 p.m.: Poet Tessa Rumsey will read from her award-winning works, including “Assembling the Shepherd,” which won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition in 1998, and “The Return Message,” which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize in 2004. Rumsey, who currently teaches a short course in poetry writing at Grinnell, is a visiting faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Nov. 28, 8 p.m.: Amy Scattergood, a staff writer for the food section of the Los Angeles Times, will read from her poetry collection, “The Grammar of Nails.” Scattergood’s background for writing includes an advanced degree in religion from Yale Divinity School, an M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and most recently, a degree from the California School of Culinary Arts. Her poetry has been published in journals including the Yale, Harvard, Antioch, and Paris Reviews.

All Writers@Grinnell events will be held in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101, located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus. The series will continue throughout the second semester, beginning with a January reading by nonfiction writer Josh Elder (Jan. 24).

For more information about the Writers@Grinnell program, go to http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/english/creative/conference/.

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