FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jan.21, 2006

Contact: Shirley Melikian Armbruster

559.278.5292 or 593.1815

The College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Fresno will host poet Sharon Bryan on Tuesday, Jan. 31, as part of the “Intellectual Artistic Exploration” lecture series.

The lecture, which is titled “Seeing in the Dark: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Painting,” will begin at 7 p.m. at the Smittcamp Alumni House. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Bryan is the English Department’s Distinguished Visiting Writer and poet in residence this spring. She is teaching two graduate courses in the Master of Fine Arts program and will present a reading of her own poetry on Feb. 23.

Bryan, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, is completing her sixth book.

She has won an Academy of American Poets prize and the Discovery Award from The Nation magazine. Bryan has been a poet in residence at several universities around the nation.

“Literature makes visible to the inner eye what is otherwise invisible; painting does something similar when it finally tires of creating illusions of a three-dimensional world,” said Bryan.

For more information, contact the College of Arts and Humanities at 559.278.3056.

(Copy by University Communications student-intern Megan Jacobsen.)