Carol Frost, an award-winning author and professor of English at Rollins College, will read at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in the Gold Ballroom at the West Virginia University Mountainlair. Frost has been chosen as the 2011 Sturm Writer-in-Residence. In addition to this public reading, which is free and open to the public, Frost will work with 12 WVU creative writing students for the remainder of the week.

Carol Frost is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including “Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems” “The Queen’s Desertion,” and a chapbook, “The Salt Lesson.” She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won several Pushcart Prizes.

“We couldn’t be more pleased by Carol Frost’s upcoming visit,” said English Professor Mark Brazaitis, who directs WVU’s Creative Writing Program. “Her poems are elegant, erudite, and accessible. Poetry lovers—and lovers of language in general—will be delighted to hear her read.”

Frost’s poems often draw from traditional sources such as the Bible and Shakespeare. She writes of the human body, and her poems are rich with the acutely imagined objects of the natural world−whether found off the coast of Florida or in a beehive. In the “Women’s Review of Books,” Ann Kollough noted of Frost’s 2003 collection “I Will Say Beauty” that Frost seems “to be attempting a real, full-throttle encounter with the natural world itself, rather than using it primarily as a vehicle for metaphor, as in many traditions.”

Frost has taught at Hartwick College, Washington University and Wichita State University. She has had several teaching residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and was a visiting poet at the University of Wollongon, Australia. She founded and for 15 years directed the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College. At Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., she directs the Winter with the Writers program, a festival of the literary arts.

Students are selected for the Sturm Workshop on the basis of a campus-wide writing competition. Any student may submit a sample of writing for consideration. Those selected are among the University’s finest creative writers.

The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.

For more information, contact Mark Brazaitis, director of Creative Writing, at (304) 293-9707. Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu.

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