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POET EXPLORES HIS CRAFT, PRAYER IN WRITERS CONFERENCE |
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March 04, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Grove City College Department of English will host Dr. Scott Cairns, a poet, scholar and teacher, for the 2009 Christian Writers Conference March 26. Cairns will explore “Leaning into Poetry and Prayer” in presentations throughout the day.
Cairns’ first presentation, “Two Gifts: Vocation and Prayer,” will begin at 9:30 a.m. in Harbison Chapel. From 4 to 5 p.m., he will discuss “Recovering the Poetic for the Contemporary ‘Poem’” in the Rare Book Room of the Henry Buhl Library; refreshments will be offered prior to his lecture. Cairns’ visit concludes with a poetry reading, question-and-answer session and book signing beginning at 7 p.m. in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters. The conference is free and open to the public.
An accomplished poet, scholar, and teacher, Cairns is currently professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri. He teaches modern and contemporary American literature and directs the Center for the Literary Arts.
Cairns earned his bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University, a master’s from Hollins College, a master of fine arts degree from Bowling Green State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. In 2006 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He has taught American literature and creative writing at Kansas State University, Westminster College, University of North Texas, Old Dominion University and University of Missouri. He lives in Columbia, Mo., with his wife, Marcia Vanderlip, and their two children.
Among his many books of poetry, his two most recent volumes include “Compass of Affection” and a collection of poetic translations of Christian mystics, “Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life.” He has also published a nonfiction spiritual memoir on his journey to Mt. Athos, “Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven – A Pilgrimage.” All three titles are currently on sale in the College Bookstore and will be available for purchase at the poetry reading
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