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Alumna chosen for Library of Congress poetry fellowship

Alexa Lokensgard
January 21, 2003

Rebecca Wee ?84 has been awarded the prestigious Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship for 2003?04. Wee is one of two poets nationwide chosen by the United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive the fellowship which is intended to support Wee?s writing of poetry. The fellowship comes with an invitation for Wee to read from her own work with the other 2003?04 Witter Bynner Fellow (who is yet to be selected) in Washington, D.C., in April. The Library of Congress will also ask Wee to coordinate a local poetry event in 2003. Wee teaches creative writing, literature and composition at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. The funding source for the fellowships, the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry, was incorporated in 1972 in New Mexico to provide grant support for programs in poetry through nonprofit organizations. Witter Bynner was an influential early-20th century poet and translator of the Chinese classic the Tao Te Ching, which he named The Way of Life According to Laotzu.

Contact Carole Engblom at 507-786-3315 or leigh@stolaf.edu.