Poet April Lindner Visits UNH Oct. 23


Contact: Erika Mantz
603-862-1567
UNH Media Relations

Oct. 15, 2003



DURHAM, N.H. – April Lindner, award-winning poet and assistant professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, will read from her work Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003, at 5:30 p.m. in Ham-Smith 129, at the University of New Hampshire. Lindner will also sign copies of her work, which will be available for sale.

Sponsored by the UNH English Department’s Writers Series, the lecture is free and open to the public.

In addition to receiving the 2001 Walt McDonald First Book Poetry Prize for “Skin,” Lindner was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award in 1992. Her poetry has been published in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Formalist, The Greensboro Review, and numerous other literary journals.