Poet Dorianne Laux will give a free, public reading at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at Athens Ciné, 234 West Hancock St. The reading is sponsored by The Georgia Review, UGA’s literary quarterly, and the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a consortium of colleges and universities across the state that cooperates to bring nationally-recognized poets to Athens and elsewhere three times a year. UGA instructor and poet Heather Cousins will be the opening reader.
Laux was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952. She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, a maid and a donut holer before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. She is the author of Facts about the Moon, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
