Single Voice Reading Series Continues with Poet Scott Cairns

cairnssFeb. 9, 2015 – The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College continues its 2014-15 season at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12 with Scott Cairns reading from his work. The presentation in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center is free and open to the public.

Cairns is professor of English at the University of Missouri and founding director of Writing Workshops in Greece. The most recent of his seven poetry collections, “Idiot Psalms,” was published in 2014, as was the Greek edition of his spiritual memoir “Short Trip to the Edge.” He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 and the Denise Levertov Award in 2014.

For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.