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Pulitzer-Winning Poet Dennis To Launch

Hartwick's New American Writing Festival

Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Dennis
Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Dennis

ONEONTA – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis will be the featured reader at Hartwick College’s two-evening New American Writing Festival Tuesday-Wednesday,Nov. 4-5, in the Shineman Chapel House's Celebration Room.

Also featured will be the work of five Hartwick alumni: Diane Bliss ’81, Lynn Marie Houston ’94, Scot Slaby ’98, Jeffrey Simonds ’10, and Brendan Walsh ’10. The event is free, and open to the public.  Dennis will highlight the event, reading at 8 p.m. on Wednesday the 5th.

He has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Dennis holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at SUNY Buffalo since 1966.

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