Dog Road Woman
Allison Hedge Coke
Tuesday, 21 Feb 2006 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Allison Hedge Coke is the author of two poetry collections, Off-Season City Pipe and Dog Road Woman, winner of the 1998 American Book Award, and a memoir, Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. She teaches in the English department and the MFA program at Northern Michigan University. Part of the Second Annual Symposium on Wildness & Wilderness. 7-7:45 pm - The Bone People will perform jazz poetry, rhythm & blues.This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Agrestal
- Bioethics Program
- College of LAS
- Ecology, Evolution, & Organismal Biology
- English
- Environmental Sciences
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Greenlee School of Journalism
- History
- Landscape Architecture
- Miller Lecture Fund
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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