February 22, 2008 - 1:00am
By Jennifer Kahn
Last Friday, Cornell kicked off its Spring 2008 Reading Series with a presentation from Denis Johnson, Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky, three new visiting professors in the creative writing program. The event was sponsored by two anonymous donors who are alumni of Cornell University.
The reading began with selections from the poetry and prose of Lisicky, author of Lawnboy and Famous Builder.
“I really enjoyed his poems about his mom and her memory,” Sarah Scoles grad said. “They were very touching.”
A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Lisicky won numerous awards from societies such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center.
