Poetry Reading

Deborah Digges and Stanley Plomly

Thursday, 29 Mar 1990 at 8:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

Deborah Digges is a professor at Tufts University and visiting professor at New York University. Her books include Vesper Sparrows and the upcoming A Natural History of Southern Missouri. Stanley Plumly is the Director of Creative Program at the University of Maryland. His books include In the Outer Dark and Giraffe..From the University Lectures Program archive.

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