GREENSBURG, PA- Seton Hill University welcomes Sam Hazo, State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh, who will give a poetry reading at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 21st in Cecilian Hall on campus. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing, with a limited number of books available for sale, will be held after the reading.

Sam Hazo is the McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University. His most recent books are The Holy Surprise of Right Now and As They Sail (poetry), Stills (fiction), Feather and Mano A Mano (drama) and Spying for God (essays). Hazo has translated a number of works, including Denis De Rougemont’s The Growl of Deeper Waters, Nadia Tueni’s Lebanon: Twenty Poems for One Love and Donis’ The Pages of Day and Night. His newest book of poems will appear under the title Just Once. He has been a National Book Award finalist and was chosen as the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the late Governor Robert Casey in 1993, a position he still holds.

Reservations are requested for this event. Please call 724-830-4626 to reserve your general admission seat. For more information please contact Mary Cox, Director of Events and Marketing Coordinator at Seton Hill University at 724-830-1027 or cox@setonhill.edu.

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