Poet and winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Maurice Manning, will read from his work on Nov. 7, Heth Ballroom, Radford University at 7:30 p.m. The English Department, Appalachian Studies Program, and Honors Academy are co-sponsoring his visit. After the reading, there will be a reception and book-signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Maurice Manning’s third book of poetry, Bucolics, takes on the point of view of a shepherd, a “curious, grateful and mischievous speaker [who] spars with his unanswering deity” (Publisher’s Weekly). Manning’s first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 2000. Manning’s second collection, A Companion for Owls, is a collection of narrative poems written in the voice of frontiersman Daniel Boone. Manning’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Wind, Black Warrior Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He is a native of Kentucky and teaches in the MFA Programs at Indiana University and Warren Wilson College.