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Contact: Cindy Deppe, media relations, 641-269-4834

November 6, 2007

AWARD-WINNING POET TO READ AT GRINNELL

San Francisco poet Tessa Rumsey will read from her award-winning works, including "Assembling the Shepherd," on Nov. 9 at 8 p.m. in the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101, located at 1115 8th Ave. on the Grinnell College campus.

Rumsey, who currently teaches a short course in poetry writing at Grinnell, is a visiting faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She won the 1998 Contemporary Poetry Series Competition for "Shepherd," and the 2004 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second book of poems, "The Return Message." Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The New Republic, and many other publications.

Rumsey’s reading is part of the ongoing Writers@Grinnell program. For more information, go to http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/english/creative/conference/.

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