The reading on November 4^th will be, in the main, a celebration of the life and people of the countryside - both in Minnesota and the region of South East Australia where Keith now spends half the year. He is delighted to have his old friend Jackson Bryce, another unrepentant Virgilian, as a reading-companion.

Since retiring from Carleton Keith Harrison has been working on several books, including a forthcoming selection of new and published poems which he will be introducing at this reading. Several of the poems in the book have been selected for national anthologies in Australia. Other on-going retirement projects include an experimental memoir, a text for students on the crafts of poetry called Word-Music and How to Stop Your Papers from Killing You (and Me), another text, published earlier this year, which is being used in his Advanced Writing class this term.

Jackson Bryce is the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of Classical Languages and the Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in Bassoon at Carleton.  His interests are in Roman literature and history (especially of the Christian era).  Jack began teaching at Carleton in 1972.