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Poet C.M. Burroughs to visit ECC Writers Center Reading Series Sept. 20

Elgin Community College will welcome poet C.M. Burroughs as the next featured guest of the Writers Center Reading Series on Thursday, Sept. 20.

The event begins at 7:30 p.m. in the ECC Arts Center, Building H, Room H142, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.

Burroughs' debut collection of poetry is "The Vital System" (Tupelo Press, 2012). She is an assistant professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where she serves as senior editor for Tupelo Quarterly and co-editor for Court Green. Burroughs has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations.

A Pushcart Prize nominee and a finalist for the 2009 Gift of Freedom Award, Burroughs' poetry has appeared in journals including Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, Bat City Review and The Volta. She is a graduate of Sweet Briar College and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh.

All Writers Center readings are free and open to the public. A pre-reading dinner with Burroughs will be held at 5:30 p.m. Books will be available for sale and signing.

For dinner reservations or more information, please contact Rachael Stewart at rstewart@elgin.edu.

Author Patrick Parks will be the next Writers Center Reading Series guest on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Parks is the author of the new novel "Tucumcari." His fiction also has appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Clockwatch Review, Farmer's Market, B City, and the anthology "The Breast." He was the editor of Black Dirt, a literary journal, and "Sarajevo: An Anthology for Bosnian Relief." A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, he taught writing at Elgin Community College for 26 years and was named National Community College Teacher of the Year.

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