Physics Colloquium - Fall 2006 - Selections from "The Horse's Name Was Physics"
Dept of Physics & Astronomy
University of Maine, Orono, Maine
Presents
George Drew
Selections from "The Horse's Name Was Physics"
George Drew will read selections from "The Horse's Name Was Physics," his collection of poetry describing the development of modern physics and the dawn of the nuclear age.
The Mississippi-born Drew, who lives in New York state, has been widely published to strong reviews. His work has appeared in such journals as Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Hollins Critic, Maine Times, Mississippi Review, The Quarterly, Quarterly West, Salmagundi, Southern Poetry Review and Vermont Literary Review.
Toads in a Poisoned Tank, his first book, was published in 1986, and a chapbook, So Many Bones (Poems of Russia), in 1997 by a Russian press, in a bilingual edition. A second collection, The Horse's Name Was Physics, appeared in 2006 from Word Tech Communications, under their Turning Point imprint. This collection has been has been lauded as graceful and richly nuanced. One of his poems received an Honorable Mention in the Robert Frost Foundation's poetry competition, 2002, and another in the W.B. Yeats Society's competition, the same year. He was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2004, and that summer he was a Guest Poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH. He was the winner of the 2003 Paumanok Poetry Award.
Friday, October 6, 2006
12:00 pm
114 Bennett Hall
Light refreshments will follow in Rm. 114, Bennett Hall
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