An evening of poetry and prose by Minnie Bruce Pratt, Jane Watson Irwin Chair of Women's Studies at Hamilton College, will read from her work on Friday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m., in the Events Barn. The event is co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Women's Studies Program, with additional support from the Kirkland Endowment.
Pratt has published four volumes of poetry, The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, Crime Against Nature, which was chosen as the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Selection for 1989 and won the American Library Association's 1991 Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature, and Walking Back Up Depot Street. She has also published several collections of essays and stories, including Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism (co-authored with Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith), Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991, and S/HE. Her fourth collection of poetry, The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in summer 2003.
