Coverage Opportunity

What:		Trinity alumnus Tom Lisk ’70 will read from his new book of poems, These Beautiful Limits, Parlor Press, 2006 in the first in the Trinity College English Department’s Fall Reading Series. According to the publisher, the poems in These Beautiful Limits delight in the transparency—and the obliquity—of language. They explore the borders of language to see the ways in which language defines identity—not merely the language of meditation and philosophical inquiry, but also the quotidian language of everyday life that hovers on the edge of forgetfulness. The collection, which culminates in a long poem, “Hemp Quoits,” takes as its premise the assumption that the borders of identity are permeable with all the languages the self encounters on a daily basis.
When:		Wednesday, October 11, 2006, at 5:00 p.m.
Where:		Faculty Club, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
Background:		Thomas David Lisk, serves as the head of the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in many publications. In addition to a collection of his poems, A Short History of Pens Since the French Revolution, published by Apalachee Press, he has published more than a hundred individual poems and more than twenty-five works of short fiction in literary magazines and newspapers. More recently his poetry has appeared in Arts and Letters, Boston Review, Boulevard, Oklahoma Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly. His recent fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and Amarillo Bay. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in e-Scene: the Best of the Net. The event is sponsored by the Poetry Center and English Department. For more information, call (860) 680-5322.

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