FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date:
March 14, 2003
Contact: Donna McCracken, 206-6716
SPRINGFIELD – The English program at the University of Illinois at Springfield
will present faculty member Rosina Neginsky reading from her new book of
poetry, Under the Light of the Moon, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in
the Public Affairs Center restaurant on the UIS campus.
A reception and book signing will
follow; both the reading and reception are free and open to the public.
Neginsky is also the author of another
book of poetry, Dancing Over the Precipice. Her forthcoming academic
work includes a book on the important but little known Symbolist writer Zinaida
Vengerova.
Neginsky holds degrees from the University
of Paris III and earned the Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University
of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign. Under the Light of the Moon was
published in New York by Slovo-Word.
The UIS English program will also host
its annual Verbal Arts Festival from April 21-26. Scheduled events include
readings from the latest edition of campus literary magazine The Alchemist
Review, an open mic night, performances by Writers’ Repertory, a brown-bag
lecture on “How to Start Getting Published” by author Martha Miller, the second
program in the Everson Lecture Series, a two-day European film festival, and a
performance by the Verbal Arts Players of James Joyce’s Dubliners: Four
Movements. All events in the Verbal Arts Festival are free and open to the
public.
For more information about the poetry reading or the festival, contact the English program at 206-6779.