TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Mary Ruefle will read from her poetry work on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Morgan Auditorium as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series at The University of Alabama.

The event is free and open to the public.

Ruefle is the author of five books of poetry: “Post Meridian,” “Cold Pluto,” “The Adamant,” which won the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize, “Life Without Speaking,” and “Memling’s Veil.”

She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Ruefle is taking a semester off from teaching in the master of fine arts program at Vermont College to teach in The University of Alabama Program in Creative Writing for the spring 2002 semester.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.