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| This release prepared by the Office of Enrollment Systems and Community Outreach. Rebecca Eidson, Director, Ext. 2456, reidson@tctc.edu Lisa Garrett, Public Relations Associate, Ext. 2315, lgarrett@tctc.edu Laura Martin, Public Relations Assistant, Ext. 2116, lmartin5@tctc.edu |
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Tri-County Hosts Award-Winning Poet and Author B.H. FairchildCONTACT: RON RASH, EXT. 2326 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/30/2001 PENDLETON --- B. H. Fairchild, an award-winning poet and author of four books, will read from his poetry Monday, April 2, at Tri-County Technical College. Mr. Fairchild will begin his presentation at 10 a.m. in Oconee Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the College's Arts and Sciences Division's Enrichment Series Committee. A Texas native who grew up in small towns in Oklahoma, Kansas and west Texas, Fairchild is a professor of English at Cal State San Bernardino in California. The Art of the Lathe, his critically acclaimed and award-winning collection of poems, was a finalist for the National Book Award. In manuscript form, it won the Capricorn and Beatrice Hawley Awards, and since publication, has received the William Carlos Williams, Kingsley Tufts and Texas Institute of Letters Awards. His poetry collections include Local Knowledge and The Arrival of the Future, and his poems have appeared in Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and Hudson Review. His other awards include the 1999 California Book Award; the 1999 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award; and the 1999 PEN Center USA West Poetry Award. His other awards include a NEA Fellowship in Poetry, a California Arts Grant, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers Conference, a National Writers' Union First Prize and an AWP Anniversary Award. Fairchild received his B.A. and M.A. degrees the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa. He lives with his wife and daughter in Claremont, California. |
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