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Award-winning Illinois author Rebecca Wee to read from new book Oct. 9

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October 1, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Award-winning Illinois author Rebecca Wee will read from and sign copies of her new book of poetry Uncertain Grace on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The reading, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in Rolvaag Library Room 525 on the St. Olaf College campus. Wee will sign copies of Uncertain Grace after the reading. The reading is co-sponsored by the St. Olaf and Carleton College Bookstores.

Uncertain Grace is a collection of observations that describe the fragments of our world. "The focus of these poems?is on multiple and simultaneous points or events rather than on any one in particular," said Wee. Jane Miller, judge of the Hayden Carruth Award, says, "These poems use natural speech and action to give them a sensual voice?[with] intimacies?in the minor notes."

Using images more like sudden complete thoughts than rehearsed summations, Rebecca Wee "loads every rift with ore, with no dead air in her lines," says Donald Hall.

Wee is a professor of creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill. Her manuscript, one of nearly 1000 entries, was the winner of Copper Canyon Press? 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New & Emerging Poets. She is a former Poetry Editor for the minnesota review and has won the Phoebe Poetry Award, the Virginia Downs Poetry Award, and the Klappert-Ai Poetry Prize. Uncertain Grace is Wee?s first book.

St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

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