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St. Olaf hosts University of Minnesota Professor, Poet Michael Dennis Browne

By Catherine Grochala '06
September 21, 2005

University of Minnesota Professor Michael Dennis Browne will give a poetry reading Wednesday, Sept. 21 at Rolvaag Memorial Library, room 525, at St. Olaf College at 7 p.m. Following the reading, Browne's books will be available for signing and for purchase. The event is sponsored by the St. Olaf College English Department and is free and open to the public.

"To quote W.H. Auden, Dennis Browne's poetry is a 'clear expression of mixed feelings': personal but not confessional, moral but not moralistic, and literate but not inaccessible," says Mary Winstead, assistant professor of English at St. Olaf and a former student of Browne. "His work challenges the reader gently but firmly to forget nothing, to notice everything and never to take the moment for granted."

Browne is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where he has directed the creative writing program. He is also an instructor at the annual Iowa Summer Writing Festival and has co-judged the Pushcart Prize for poetry. He has written six books of poetry; his most recent collection of poems is Things I Can't Tell You. Another collection, Selected Poems 1965?1995, won the 1998 Minnesota Book Award.

Contact at 507-786-3315 or @stolaf.edu.