I.G. Greer Hall ASU Box 32021 828.265.8626. http://english.appstate.edu/events/series/5 Media Contact: Zoe Croft Phone: 207.776.

5030 Email: croftcz@appstate.edu MEDIA ADVISORY / PHOTO OPPORTUNITY For Oct. 3, 2013 The Department of English Announces Visiting Writers Series Guest: Toi Derricotte Derricottes The Black Notebooks won New York Times Notable Book of the Year WHAT: Poet and memoirist Toi Derricotte will read from her work at Appalachian State University. Derricotte also will present the craft talk Social Butterfly or Recluse: Some Thoughts about Writing In and Out of Community WHO: Poet Toi Derricotte. Derricotte, a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, is well known for her books The Undertakers Daughter (2011), Tender (1997), which won the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, Captivity (1989), Natural Birth (1983) and The Empress of the Death House (1978). Dericottes The Black Notebooks is a literary memoir that won the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Poet Toi Derricotte will speak at Appalachian State University as a part of Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing seminar WHEN/WHERE: Oct. 3, 2013 Admission to all events is free. Table Rock Room 231 Plemmons Student Union Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 Phone: (828) 262-3032
12:30- 1:45 p.m. ! Derricotte will present the craft talk Social Butterfly or Recluse: Some Thoughts about Writing In and Out of Community in Plemmons Student Unions Table Rock Room. 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. !A pre-reading reception will be held from in Price Lake Room in the student union. 7:30 p.m. ! Toi Derricotte will give a reading from her work in Plemmons Student Unions Table Rock Room.

Parking is free in most campus lots after 5 p.m. and in the College Street parking deck after 5:30 p.m. The College Street deck adjacent to Belk Library and Information Commons provides the closest access to the student union. More detailed directions to campus can be found by visiting Appalachian State Universitys Website http://maps.appstate.edu/ PHOTO/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY: After the readings Derricotte will be available for questions and photos Book sales and signing will follow her talk and reading. The public is invited to attend all the events. THE VISTING WRITES SERIES: The Visiting Writers Series is named in honor of Hughlene Bostian Frank (class of 1968), 2013 Appalachian Alumni Association Outstanding Service award recipient, past trustee, and generous supporter of Appalachian State University. For further information on the Visiting Writers Series fall series see the media contact above.
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