Events are free and open to the public.
Also reading will be poet, translator, and professor Len Roberts, judge of this year s competition. Conn. Her winning entry is entitled Thirst. Honorable mention went to Ian Bibby , a junior Bethesda, Md., for Illness, and Liza Zitelli , a junior English major from Bergenfield, N.J., for Guilt Blanket. The Corrie contest, sponsored by the Department of English and the Academy of American Poets, is open to first-year students, sophomores, and juniors. Roberts, a professor of English at Northampton Community College, is the recipient of numerous awards for his poems and translations.