Award-winning Poet Joseph Bathanti to Give Reading Nov. 12
Joseph Bathanti, author of the National Book Award-nominated This Metal, will present a poetry reading Monday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the second-floor gallery of Founders Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Bathanti is the author of four books of poetry: Communion Partners, Anson County, The Feast of All Saints and This Metal. He won the 1997 Oscar Arnold Young Award from The North Carolina Poetry Council for best book of poems by a North Carolina writer.
His first novel, East Liberty, winner of the Carolina Novel Award, was published in 2001. His latest novel, Coventry, was winner of the 2006 Novello Literary Award.
His book of nonfiction, They Changed the State: The Legacy of North Carolina’s Visiting Artists, 1971-1995, was published in early 2007. His collection of short stories, The High Heart, was published this fall and was winner of the 2007 Spokane Prize.
Bathanti was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature from the University of Pittsburgh as well as a master's in creative writing from Warren Wilson College.
He is professor of creative writing and co-director of the visiting writers series at Appalachian State University.
Nov. 12, 2007