A reading by Philip Levine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will be presented on Tuesday, March 16 at California State University, Fresno as part of the Humanities Matters Lectures Series now underway.

The series of spring readings and presentations, Culture and the Creative Writing Process, is free to the public and will be held in the Satellite Student Union at 6:30 p.m. It is sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities.

Levine won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1995 for his book The Simple Truth. He taught literature and creative writing at Fresno State from 1958 until his retirement in 1992.

He has also taught or served as a visiting writer at UC Berkeley, Tufts, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, NYU, Vassar, Vanderbilt, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Cincinnati, and National University of Australia.

In 1970, Levine was chosen the Outstanding Professor for Fresno State, and the following year,

for the entire state university system. Levine began publishing poetry in magazines in 1955. The spring series will also feature creative writers from the university and the community. On Tuesday, April 6, Dympna Ogwu-Oju, a Madera Community College Center English

instructor and author, will present a reading.

On Tuesday, May 4, Margarita Luna Robles and Juan Felipe Herrera will present readings. Robles is a poet, performance artist and multi-media playwright. Herrera, a Chicano Latino Studies professor, is a poet, actor, and author of eight prose and poetry books.

Free parking is available in Lots J,N,O, & P for the series. For more information, call Vida Samiian at (559) 278-3056.