Published Poet, Novelist and Essayist Reads at Arcadia University On Feb. 27
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Glenside, Pa.—Jan. 30, 2009―Jeffrey Ethan Lee, who is the Senior Poetry Editor for Many Mountains Moving, Inc., and currently teaches creative writing at West Chester University, will be at Arcadia University on Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 p.m., in the Rose Room of Grey Towers Castle, as part of the Visiting Writer Lecture series. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information about arts and culture events at Arcadia University, visit www.arcadia.edu/arts.
Lee's book of poems, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006), was a 2007 Colorado Book Award finalist. His first full-length collection, invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004), was praised in American Book Review, American Review, and Rain Taxi Review. Along with winning the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook prize for The Sylf (2003), he created identity papers for Drimala Records, published Strangers in a Homeland (Ashland Poetry Press, 2001), and also has published hundreds of poems, stories and essays in Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, African American Review, American Poetry Review, Xconnect, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Crosscurrents, Green Mountain Review, Washington Square and Other Voices.
In 2001, Lee won the first Tupelo Press award for literary fiction for The Autobiography of Somebody Else. He has both a Ph.D. and M.F.A. from New York University, and his poetry books have been used in classes at SUNY Albany, the Honors College of Penn State, Erie, Drexel University, the MFA program at Ashland University, LeMoyne College and elsewhere.
His first scholarly essay on Dorothy Wordsworth's poetry and poetics is forthcoming this year (2008-2009).
Arcadia University is a top-ranked coeducational private university in metropolitan Philadelphia and a national leader in study abroad. The 2008 Open Doors report ranks Arcadia University #1 in the nation among the percentage of undergraduate students studying abroad. U.S. News & World Report ranks Arcadia University among the top 25 master's universities in the North, one of the top study abroad programs in the nation, and a Great School at a Great Price. Annually, Arcadia's College of Global Studies sends more than 3,000 students from colleges and universities around the country to more than 100 different study abroad programs at some of the finest universities across the globe. Arcadia University promises a distinctively global, integrative and personal learning experience that prepares students to contribute and prosper in a diverse and dynamic world.
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