LSC-Montgomery Writers in Performance series welcomes National Book Award finalist

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – Lone Star College-Montgomery and the Montgomery County Literary Art Council’s Writers in Performance series welcomes National Book Award finalist Reginald Gibbons for a reading and discussion on Thursday, October 15, at 7 p.m. in the General Academic Center (building G), room 102, at LSC-Montgomery. This event is free and open to the public.

Gibbons is the author of nine books of poems and the novel Sweetbitter, whichincludes translations of Mexico and Spanish poets, Sophocles and Euripides, and other works. He edited the volume of William Goyen’s uncollected work, Goyehn: Autobiographical Esssays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews (University of Texas Press and the Harry Ransom Center) and the 50th-anniversary edition of Goyen’s The House of Breath (Northwestern University Press). University of Chicago Press just published Gibbons book about poetry, How Poems Think.

Gibbons has won four prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters for best novel, short story, book of poems and book oftranslation. He teaches at Northwestern University.

Writers in Performance is a reading program dedicated to bringing the most distinguished minds and their bright visions to the citizens of Montgomery County through thought-provoking literature and cultural diversity. The series’ events are made possible by the partnerships between Lone Star College-Montgomery, SWIRL Literary & Arts Journal, the Conroe Commission on Arts & Culture, the Greater Conroe Arts Alliance, and the Montgomery County Literary Arts Council.

For more information, visit www.literaryartscouncil.org; or contact Dave Parsons at (936) 524-6537 or david.m.parsons@lonestar.edu.

LSC-Montgomery is located at 3200 College Park Drive, one-half mile west of Interstate 45,between Conroe and The Woodlands. For more information about the college, call (936) 273-7000, or visit the website.