Professor Nick Regiacorte from Knox College joins Galesburg's Morning News to talk about an exciting literary event right here in Galesburg. Knox’s English Department is launching the inaugural Robin Metz Writer in Residence program, honoring the legacy of the beloved Professor Robin Metz, a cornerstone of Galesburg’s literary scene and founder of Knox’s creative writing program.
Acclaimed poet Donald Revell will be in town as the first writer in residence, with a public reading set for 4 p.m. Thursday, May 1 in the Red Room of Seymour Library on the campus of Knox College.
Revell is the author of 17 collections of poetry, most recently of Canandaigua and White Campion (both Alice James Books), as well as six volumes of translations from the French, including Apollinaire’s Alcools (Wesleyan), Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell, Laforgue’s Last Verses, and Verlaine’s Songs without Words (all Omnidawn). Winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize.
Regiacorte, Professor of English/Director of Creative Writing, discusses:
- Robin Metz's impact on Knox and the literary world
- An introduction to Donald Revell's work
- The evolving nature of poetry
- And he reads poems from Revell's recent book
