Terry Wright, professor of Writing at UCA, will open UCA’s College of Fine Arts and Communications Arts and Presidency Series for 2007-08 with a poetry reading this Sunday, Oct. 28 in the Clinton Presidential Center’s Garden View Room in Little Rock.
Wright, a writer and visual artist, will read from his nearly-finished book of poetry, “The Confrontations,” during the approximately hour-long multi-media presentation set to start at 3 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Wright is the author of five books of poetry, including “What the Black Box Said.” Wright’s work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including “Rolling Stone,” “McSweeney’s,” “Slipstream,” “Sequoia,” “Puerto del Sol,” and many others. He received an Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Arkansas Arts Council in 2002. He is the only Arkansas writer to receive both the Poetry and the Fiction Prize from WORDS – The Arkansas Literary Society.
