English Program presents poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil September 25

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On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in Penn State Altoona's Edith Davis Eve Chapel, come hear Aimee Nezhukumatathil read from her poems and learn about some of her favorite things, which include peacocks and jellyfish.

Nezhukumatathil is the author of three poetry collections: Lucky Fish, At the Drive-in Volcano, and Miracle Fruit. She has been awarded a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize, the Angoff Award from The Literary Review, the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah, The Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, an Associated Writing Programs Intro Award in creative non-fiction, and fellowships to the MacDowell Arts Colony.

The reading is sponsored by Penn State Altoona’s English degree program and is free and open to the public.