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Education for Justice Poetry Reading: Brian Turner

Tuesday, 27 March, 2012

Award-winning soldier-poet and author Brian Turner served in both Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. His poems have been published in the Cortland Review, Poetry Daily, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Georgia Review, Rattle, Virginia Quarterly Review, and ZYZZYVA, and in anthologies including Voices in Wartime: The Anthology and Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families. He has published essays in The New York Times and National Geographic. Turner currently serves as Director of the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College at Lake Tahoe.

Turner’s two poetry collections--Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise--will be on sale at the University bookstore and at the reading.

More information on Turner can be found here: http://www.brianturner.org/

Part of the Education for Justice events for the 2011-2012 theme “Finding Justice after 9/11.” Free and open to the public. 7pm. DeNaples Center 401.

Contact:

Mike Allison, PhD

Phone: 941-4051
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DeNaples Center, Moskovitz Theater (401)

900 Mulberry Street
 Scranton, PA 18510