This weekend, the English Department is proud to sponsor the Rob Bixby/March Street Press Reading and Tribute (2:00-4:00PM), Saturday, October 5, Richmond Center.
Ten poets and writers with Michigan ties will gather to read
their work and to celebrate the life and contribution of Robert J. Bixby
(Masters of Social Work from WMU), fiction writer, editor, and publisher of
March Street Press, who died last fall. All of the visitors have had books
published by Robert Bixby; all will come at their own expense and will donate
the proceeds from sales of their books to help fund the Robert J. Bixby Award
in Creative Writing, established this spring with a gift from Bixby’s widow,
Kathy Bixby.
Readers: Arnie
Johnston, Deborah Ann Percy, David R. James, Josie Kearns, Elizabeth
Kerlikowske, Lynn Pattison, Beverly Matherne, Keith Taylor, Rosalie Sanara
Petrouske, John Rybicki, and Eric Torgersen.
This event is sponsored by the Creative
Writing Program, the Department of English, the WMU Development Office, and the
WMU Libraries. Free and open to the
public. Refreshments
will be served and a book signing follows the reading. Book sales will be
handled by Dean Hauck of Kalamazoo’s Michigan News Agency.
For more information about the event, please contact Arnie
Johnston at 269-870-0703, arnie.johnston@wmich.edu or Anne
Tappan Strother, anne.t.strother@wmich.edu.
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