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| Monday, September 13, 1999 WRITER: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, philwpio@arches.uga.edu CONTACT: Barbara Ras, 706/542-369-6145, ras@ugapress.uga.edu POET BARBARA RAS TO PRESENT READING ON AT UGA, SEPT. 16 ATHENS, Ga. Poet Barbara Ras, winner of the 1997 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, will present a reading of her work in room 265 of Park Hall at the University of Georgia, on Thursday, Sept. 16, at 4 p.m. Ras, who is executive editor with the University of Georgia Press, received the Whitman Award for her book, Bite Every Sorrow, which was published by Louisiana State University Press. The book received excellent national reviews, and Booklist called it "sonorous and enrapturing." A native of New Bedford, Mass., Ras was educated at Simmons College in Boston and at the University of Oregon. She has been on the editorial staffs of Wesleyan University Press, the University Press of New England, the University of California Press, North Point Press and Sierra Club Books. She has published poetry widely in such magazines as American Scholar, Prairie Schooner and Shenandoah. The UGA Center for Humanities and Arts is sponsoring the reading, which is free and open to the public.
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