Department of English Blog

Soul of a Poet

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The Missouri State University Creative Writing program is hosting the Fall 2011 Soul of a Poet reading next Tuesday night, Sept. 20th, at 7 PM in The Library Center on South Campbell. The featured readers are Joseph Cover (fiction) and Lora Knight (poetry).

Joe Cover has a Masters in English and has been teaching Creative Writing at Missouri State University since 2003. He has published haiku in the Haiku Journal and fiction in the Moon City Review, as well as having written a variety of magazine and newspaper articles. He lives with his wife in a 90 year old house in rural Missouri.

Lora Knight is currently working on an M. A. in English at Missouri State, where she has a graduate teaching assistantship. She holds a B.A. in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Missouri State University. Her poems have appeared in Cave Region Review and the 2011 volume of Moon City Review.

Bring your friends and family out for a great night of fiction and poetry readings. For information about The Library Center, visit TheLibrary.org website.