Summary: Blinn College will host award-winning poet Sheryl St. Germain at Bryan and Brenham campuses.

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Submitted by Gena Parsens, Blinn College gparsons@blinn.edu

Feb. 28, 2008

Blinn College to Host Award-Winning Poet

Blinn College will host award-winning poet Sheryl St. Germain for public readings on its Bryan and Brenham campuses. The March 3 reading in Bryan will begin at 7:15 p.m. in Student Center banquet room. St. Germain will be on the Brenham campus on March 4 at noon in Student Center banquet room. Admission is free.

Her visit is hosted by the Blinn College Humanities Divisions and the Texas A&M University English Department. She will also present a reading and a writing workshop at Texas A&M.

            St. Germain is the director of the Master’s of Fine Arts program in creative writing at Chatham University. Her most recent book is “Let It Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems” published last year. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts writing grants, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship awarded by the Texas Institute of Letters, and The William Faulkner award for the personal essay. Born in New Orleans, St. Germain has taught creative writing at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Knox College and Iowa State University.

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