Australian poet Pam Brown to speak at University of Richmond

September 30, 2008

Award-winning poet Pam Brown will read and speak at the University of Richmond Oct. 20 as part of the English Department Writers' Series. The series is designed to expose Richmond students and the greater community to living writers.

A resident of Sydney, Australia, Brown will speak at 8 p.m. in Weinstein Hall's Brown-Alley Room. The talk is free and open to the public.

Brown has worked in such diverse occupations as postal worker, nurse, librarian, and teacher of writing, multimedia studies and filmmaking. Poet and editor Anne Kellas said Brown "has the ability to reconsider mundane experiences and events with an edginess of language, and...emotional honesty, daring and intellectual curiosity."

Brown has published 14 books of poetry and prose. Her recent volume, "Dear Deliria," received the New South Wales Premiers Award. She is associate editor of the online literary periodical, Jacket.

For more information, call (804) 289-8287.