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Poet Julia Kasdorf to speak at Messiah College

	Julia Kasdorf Click on image to download print-quality version

GRANTHAM, Pa. (March 10, 2005) — Messiah College’s Poets and Writers Series will host a poetry reading by Julia Kasdorf on March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in room 110 of the Frey academic building on the college’s Grantham campus. The event is free and open to the public. For questions or information regarding all reading series events, contact Matthew Roth at (717) 766-2511.

Kasdorf will be reading selections from her own work, which will be directly followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing.

Kasdorf’s books of poetry include “Eve’s Striptease” and “Sleeping Preacher,” which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s Award for New Writing. Her poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “Paris Review” and “Poetry.” She is also the author of the biography “Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American” and “The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life,” which won the Book of the Year award from the Modern Language Association’s Conference on Christianity and Literature. Formerly a Messiah College professor, Kasdorf now teaches creative writing at Penn State University.

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-036-05