Martha Rhodes Launches Spring Writers-on-the-Shore Series at SU

SALISBURY, MD --- Award-winning poet Martha Rhodes launches the spring Writers-on-the-Shore series at Salisbury University. Rhodes reads from her works on Wednesday, February 13, at 8 p.m. in the Worcester Room of the Commons. Admission is free and the public is cordially invited.

Five other readings follow Rhodes: on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m., in the Montgomery Room of the Commons, novelist and poet Merle Collins; Tuesday, March 19, at 8 p.m., poet Nancy Mitchell who teaches creative writing at SU; Monday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in the Montgomery Room, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Henry Taylor; Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m. in the Worcester Room, novelist Stephen Dobyns; and on Thursday, May 9, at 8 p.m. in the Montgomery Room, SU students read from their own works celebrating the publication of the student literary journal, Mid-Atlantic Review.

Rhodes is the author of two poetry collections: Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize)

and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press, 2001); The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (University Press of New England, 2000); and The KGB Bar Book of Poems (Harper Collins, 2000).

Her poems have appeared individually in many journals including Agni, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly and others.

She teaches at The Warren Wilson College M.F.A. Program for Writers, Emerson College and New School University. She was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irving in 2001. She is a founding editor and the director of Four Way Books, an independent literary press.

For more information regarding reader in the Writers-on-the-Shore series call 410-543-6445 or visit the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.