Pittsburgh poet and Prosody radio host, Jan Beatty, will be heading to Slippery Rock University on April 22 for the release of the fourth edition of the literary publication, SLAB. She’ll be making an appearance as the evening’s keynote reader, providing the public with a taste of her ever-reaching craft. The event will begin at 7:30 PM at the University’s Russell Wright Alumni House.
Beatty’s poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Court Green, as well as anthologies published by Oxford University Press and University of Iowa Press. In 1994, her first book of poetry, Mad River, was honored with the Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press. 2008 marked the debut of her latest book, Red Sugar, which declared the ignored complications involving the interior and exterior thoughts of a woman’s body.
In addition to the book-launch, student sound/audio projects will also be showcased. The evening itself will contain a variety of odd and thought-provoking highlights, as well as the announcement of the recipients of the annual Elizabeth R. Curry Prize in Poetry.
Editor’s Note: The contributor is the Sound/Audio Editor, as well as a poetry and creative nonfiction reader, for SLAB.
