Levine Prize winner reads her poetry Feb. 17

At 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in the Henry Madden Library’s Room 2206, poet Lory Bedikian will read from her manuscript, “The Book of Lamenting,” which won the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Bedikian’s free reading is open to the public and is part of the spring 2012 series sponsored by the Fresno Poets Association and Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. The Levine Prize, named for a Pulitzer Prize-winning emeritus professor, is awarded annually to a poet who hasn’t yet published a book. INFO: 559.278.2403 or email ciwathen@csufresno.edu.