PETER MAKUCK, professor of arts and sciences, East Carolina University and author of three poetry collections, and DORTHEE KOCKS, a fiction-writing accordion player andauthor of "Dream a Little," will read from their work, Wednesday, 7 p.m., Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South.
CLARICE SHORT, University of Utah professor of English, who died in 1977, will be honored with an evening of readings of her poetry by other poets. Short's published volumes, "The Old One and the Wind" and "The Owl and the Aerial," are the chief sources. It will take place Thursday, 7 p.m., Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium.
LUCLE BROCK-BROLDO, director of poetry, Columbia University's School of the Arts, and author of "Trouble in Mind" as well as other collections of poetry, will read from her work, Thursday, 7 p.m., Dumke Student Theater, Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory, Westminster College. This is another in the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series.
ARIANNE COPE, an English instructor from Logan, was given the $1,000 Association for Mormon Letters Award, Saturday, Feb. 25, at Utah Valley State College, Orem, for her unpublished novel manuscript, "The Coming of Elijah." DON MARSHALL, BYU foreign film executive, won honorable mention for his unpublished novel, "Seeker." The awards are presented every two years by the AML.
J. ELY SHIPLEY, a U. graduate,was awarded the $1,000 Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing for his four poems from the summer issue of Prairie Schooner, the quarterly literary magazine published by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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