Poet Christina Pugh, May 11

Poet Christina Pugh will read from her own work at 4 p.m., Friday, May 11, in the Alumni Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The reading is free and open to the public.

Pugh, a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, is the author of two books of poems, "Rotary," which won the 2003 First Book Prize from Word Press, and "Gardening at Dusk." She has received Poetry magazine's Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Associated Writing Programs' INTRO Award in Poetry, a Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities, a William Meredith Scholarship from the Wesleyan Writers Conference, and three nominations for a Pushcart Prize. Pugh also has written literary criticism for Poetry, Verse, Harvard Review, Boston Review, and Jacket magazines, and for the anthology "Herspace: Women, Writing, Solitude."

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Pugh completed a master of fine arts at Emerson College and a doctorate in comparative literature at Harvard University.

Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 45 states and 44 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.