BOOK FROM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS NAMED L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
March 10, 2005
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Date: March 10, 2005
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu
BOOK FROM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS NAMED L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
LUBBOCK – A book published by Texas Tech University Press is one of the finalists for the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Catherine Tufariello's book "Keeping My Name" has been selected as one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of poetry.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners will be announced the evening of April 22 at UCLA's Royce Hall in a ceremony open to the public. The evening will also mark the opening of the tenth annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
"Keeping My Name" was the 2004 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Booklist Editors' Choice title for 2004. Tufariello has taught literature and writing courses at Cornell, the College of Charleston and the University of Miami. Her poems and translations have appeared in "Poetry," "The Hudson Review," "Yale Italian Poetry," "The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" and Longman literature anthologies.
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CONTACT: Courtney Burkholder, marketing manager, Texas Tech University Press, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-2982, ext. 315, or e-mail courtney.burkholder@ttu.edu.
Date: March 10, 2005
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu
BOOK FROM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS NAMED L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
LUBBOCK – A book published by Texas Tech University Press is one of the finalists for the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Catherine Tufariello's book "Keeping My Name" has been selected as one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the category of poetry.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize winners will be announced the evening of April 22 at UCLA's Royce Hall in a ceremony open to the public. The evening will also mark the opening of the tenth annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
"Keeping My Name" was the 2004 winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and was named a Booklist Editors' Choice title for 2004. Tufariello has taught literature and writing courses at Cornell, the College of Charleston and the University of Miami. Her poems and translations have appeared in "Poetry," "The Hudson Review," "Yale Italian Poetry," "The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry" and Longman literature anthologies.
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CONTACT: Courtney Burkholder, marketing manager, Texas Tech University Press, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-2982, ext. 315, or e-mail courtney.burkholder@ttu.edu.