Distinguished poet Sharon Bryan plans lecture
Poet Sharon Bryan, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry, who is completing her sixth book and is poet-in-residence at California State University, Fresno, will speak as part of the University Lecture Series at 7 p.m., Jan. 31, at Smittcamp Alumni House.

Bryan’s topic is “Seeing in the Dark: Some Thoughts on Poetry and Painting.”

"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," says Bryan.

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.

She is working on “Listen: A Life In and Out of poetry.”

The Jan. 31 event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture as an introduction to Fresno and the campus community.