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David Kirby, the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Literature at Florida State University, and Barbara Hamby, writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, will both read selections of their critically-acclaimed poetry on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton. The event is free and open to the public. 

Kirby was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for his collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, and is currently working on a book called Little Richard: The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Baker, a study in pop culture. His upcoming work titled Seriously Funny: Poems About Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, and Everything Else, will be co-edited with Hamby, his wife. 

Hamby has written four collections of poems. Her first book, Delirium, won the 1994 Vassar Miller Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. The Alphabet of Desire, her second book, won the 1998 New York University Prize for Poetry and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1999. Hamby's book, Babel, was chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn to win the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. All-Night Lingo Tango, her most recent book, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2009.

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