Poet Li-Young Lee will share his literary perspectives during the River City Writers Series at The University of Memphis this month. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Lee will read from his works in the University Center Faulkner Lounge.
All events are free and open to the public.
Lee's works include The City in Which I Love You , which was chosen as the Academy of American Poets' 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection, and Rose , which won the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. His poems have appeared in such periodicals as American Poetry Review, Grand Street, Iowa Review, Ironwood, Ploughshares and Tri-Quarterly . The author has studied and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the State University of New York College at Brockport, Northwestern University and the University of Iowa. The River City Writers Series is sponsored by the U of M Student Activities Co-sponsorship Committee, the Academic Enrichment Fund and the Creative Writing Program of the University's English Department.