First Friday Reading

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Gemini Ink welcomes spring faculty member Pattiann Rogers, as she reads from her works at Gemini Ink. Rogers has published 11 books of poetry, most recently Wayfare (Penguin, 2008) and Firekeeper, Revised and Expanded (Milkweed, 2006). The Grand Array, a book of her essays, is forthcoming from Trinity University Press in the fall, 2010. Rogers is the recipient of two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2005 Literary Award from the Lannan Foundation. Her poems have won five Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in The Best American Poetry, 1996 and 2010, and in The Best Spiritual Writing, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Rogers has been a visiting writer at numerous universities and was an associate professor at the University of Arkansas from 1993-1997.