Award-winning poet to read at Harding University
SEARCY, Ark. — The English Department at Harding University will hostesteemed poet Andrea Hollander Budy for a reading of her works on Feb.
25 at 7 p.m. in Cone Chapel on campus. It will be free and open to the
public, and a book signing will follow the program.
Budy, a resident of Batesville, is the author of three full-length
poetry collections. Her first collection, House Without a Dreamer, was
published in 1993 and won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Since
then she has compiled two more: The Other Life, 2001, and Woman in the
Painting, 2006. Budy also edited When She Named Fire: An Anthology of
Contemporary Poetry by American Women, which was published in 2009.
Throughout her career she has received many honors, including the D.H.
Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for memoir, The Runes Poetry
Award, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. Her poems and essays have
appeared in various anthologies, college textbooks and literary
journals such as Poetry, the Georgia Review, Shenandoah, FIELD and
Creative Nonfiction.
Budy is frequently featured at writer’s conferences and festivals
across the U.S. and has been featured in England and France as well.
Currently she works as the writer-in-residence at Lyon College, where
she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
For more information, contact the English Department at 279-4421.
