Australian poet John Kinsella to read for Writing Program Reading Series Sept. 22

Australian poet John Kinsella will read from his work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, for the Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University in St. Louis.

The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, located on the second floor of Duncker Hall, in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Kinsella is the author of more than 30 books, including The Silo (1995), The Hunt (1998), Visitants (1999) and The Hierarchy of Sheep (2001). In addition, he has published a novel, Genre (1997) and a collection of stories, Grappling Eros (1998) as well as a book of autobiographical writing, Auto (2001), and four verse plays, collected as Divinations (2002).

A Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University in England, Kinsella also serves as the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and as adjunct professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. His work has been or is being translated into French, German, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, Polish and Russian, among others.

Kinsella is founding editor for the international literary publisher Salt and international editor of The Kenyon Review. Formerly senior poetry critic for the Observer newspaper, he now reviews for Scotland on Sunday.

Kinsella’s many prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize; the John Bray Award for Poetry from the Adelaide Festival; The Age Poetry Book of the Year Award; The Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Poetry (three times); a Young Australian Creative Fellowship from the former PM of Australia, Paul Keating; and senior fellowships from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.