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*Reading by poet Eamonn Wall, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, Room 213, K-State Student Union. A native of Ireland, Wall has lived in the U.S. since 1982. He is a Smurfit-Stone Professor of Irish Studies and professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of five collections of poetry, and his book, &1xbet online casino ;Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions,&1xbet online casino ; will be published in March by the University of Notre Dame Press. For more information visit http://www.eamonnwall.net/.

* Reading by novelist Philipp Meyer, 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25, Little Theater, Union. Meyer's first novel, &1xbet online casino ;American Rust,&1xbet online casino ; made numerous 2009 best book lists. He was a finalist in 2010 for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, was recognized in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 fiction issue and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. More information on his presentation is available at http://www.k-state.edu/1xbet online casino /visit.html.

* Lecture by Susan Bordo, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3, Ballroom, Union. A feminist scholar and cultural theorist, Bordo is a professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky. Her lecture is &1xbet online casino ;The Creation of Anne Boleyn.&1xbet online casino ; The event is co-sponsored by the department of English and the women's studies program.

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* Poetry on Poyntz, 7 p.m. Friday, March 5, at the Strecker-Nelson Gallery, downtown Manhattan. Join various 1xbet online casino department faculty and students as they gather to read some of their literary work.