Writers-on-the Shore Series Continues May 10

SALISBURY, MD --Author Albert Goldbarth, described by critics as a hip, comic writer, reads from his works at Salisbury State University at 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, in the Montgomery Room of the Commons as part of the Writers-on-the-Shore Spring Literary Festival. The event is free and the public is invited.

The winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award, Goldbarth is best known for his book Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology.

“American poetry’s consummate showman . . . whose sensibility conceivably owes as much to Barnum as Whitman,” said David Barber in Poetry.

Goldbarth’s poems are based on his Jewish heritage and family memories as well as ancient history, archeology and popular culture.

Critics have said that Goldbarth conveys what it means to be an American at the turn of the millennium.

He has received numerous awards for his works including the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award from the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and fellowships at the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

His more recent works include Saving Lives (2001), Troubled Lovers in History (1999), Beyond (1998) and Adventure in Ancient Egypt (1996).

Born in Chicago, Goldbarth is the distinguished professor of humanities at Wichita State University.

The event is sponsored by the English Department, the Fulton School Visiting Speaker and Artist Fund and the Mid-Atlantic Review.

For information call 410-543-6030 or visit the Universities Web site at www.salisbury.edu.