Angelo State University will host award-winning poet Jenny Browne, a former Texas poet laureate, as the featured speaker for the 28th annual ASU Writers Conference, which honors the legacy of Elmer Kelton, a celebrated Western author.
Browne, a professor of English and creative writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, will hold two sessions on Thursday, March 6, at the C.J. Davidson Conference Center inside the Houston Harte University Center, located at 1910 Rosemont Drive. The first session, titled “A Conversation with Jenny Browne,” will begin at 9:30 a.m., while the second, “Reading and Presentation by Jenny Browne,” will take place at 4:30 p.m.
Browne, who has published five poetry books and two chapbooks, including Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems and the forthcoming I Am Trying to Love the Whole World, is a prominent figure in the literary world. She has also edited Texas, Being: A State of Poems and contributed to renowned publications such as the American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Oxford American, The Nation, and The New York Times.
The ASU Writers Conference will feature five public sessions with 16 guest authors and poets. These sessions will be held at the Eldon Black Recital Hall in the ASU Carr Education-Fine Arts Building, located at 2602 Dena Drive.
The conference honors the life and work of San Angelo native Elmer Kelton, a best-selling Western author who passed away in 2009. Kelton wrote over 40 books and won the Western Writers of America Spur Award seven times. He was also the first Distinguished Visiting Professor at ASU.
The full conference schedule and guest author profiles are available online.
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