Westminster College will present its 16th poetry reading series during the 2003-04 academic year. The program is funded by the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks endowment and a grant from Salt Lake County's Zoo, Arts and Parks program. Each of the programs is at 7 p.m. Dates and locations include:
Sept. 11, Nunemaker Place: Alexander Shurbanov, author of a dozen books of poems and essays. He teaches English literature at Sofia University in Bulgaria.
Oct. 16, Nunemaker Place: Barbara Hamby, winner of many prizes for books that include "Delirium," "The Alphabet of Desire" and soon-to-be-released "Babel." She teaches at Florida State University.
Nov. 6, Nunemaker Place: Mary Jo Bang, poetry editor, Boston Review and teacher at Washington University, St. Louis. Author of three books, "Apology for Want," "Louise in Love" and "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans."
Feb. 5, 2004, Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business auditorium: Claudia Rankine and John Lucas, husband and wife. Rankine is author of "PLOT, the End of the Alphabet" and "Nothing in Nature is Private." She is an English professor at the University of Georgia. Lucas works in documentary, new media and interactive photography.
March 4, 2004, Gore Business auditorium: Louise Gluck, author of numerous books of poetry, the latest being "The Seven Ages." An earlier work, "The Wild Iris," received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams award of the Poetry Society of America. She has won numerous other awards.
April 8, 2004, Gore business auditorium: Christopher Arigo and Anne Waldman. Arigo, winner of the 2001-2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize, earned a master's degree from the University of Utah and teaches at Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School. Waldman is co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., where she is distinguished professor of poetics.