Poet

James Armstrong

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Room 253

James Armstrong has published poems in Triquarterly, Orion, The New York Times Book Review, Shade, and elsewhere. He has taught English and creative writing at Northwestern University and in the MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His book of poems Monument in a Summer Hat was published in 1999 by New Issues Press. A fine-arts press edition of his work on Lake Superior, entitled Purl, was published in May of 2003 by Syphon Press. His latest book, Blue Lash, came out in April 2006 from Milkweed Editions. Armstrong received the PEN-New England Discovery Prize for poetry in 1996, and has been awarded both an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in poetry and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in poetry. He was an artist in residence at Isle Royale in 1994 and on Grand Island National Recreation Area in 2004. For the past eight years Armstrong has been a professor of English at Winona State University, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

See a writing sample by Armstrong.

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This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. MSU Library Services and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State offer additional support.