Author, poet and Carleton professor emeritus Keith Harrison will read from his collection HERE AND NOW: Songs and Poems of the Earth on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the College’s Gould Library Athenaeum. Billed as a celebration of rural life and people, both in Minnesota and in the region of southeast Australia where Harrison spends half his year, Harrison will be joined by Jackson Bryce, Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of Classical Languages and the Liberal Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

Since his retirement, Harrison has worked on several books, including a forthcoming selection of poetry. Several of the poems from that book have been selected for Australian national anthologies. His other continuing projects include an instructional text for students on poetry called Word-Music and an experimental memoir. He also recently published a text on writing called How to Stop Your Papers from Killing You (and Me) (Black Willow Press, 2009).

This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of English. For further information and disability accommodations, please contact Carolyn Soule at (507) 222-4322. The Gould Library is located off North College Street on the Carleton campus.