ACC Writers Project: Richard Kenney Nov 16 (Sept. 08, 2009) -

QUEENSBURY – Glens Falls-born author and poet Richard Kenney will close out the Fall 2009 schedule for the Adirondack Community College Writers Project in November.

Admission for this event is free and the public is invited.

Kenney will appear on Monday, Nov. 16, at 12:30 p.m. in ACC’s Visual Arts Gallery, Dearlove Hall.

Kenney was born and raised in Glens Falls and teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle. His work has been honored by the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Rome Prize in Literature, and he has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, MacArthur and Lannan Foundations.

He is the author of The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (Yale, 1984), Orrery (Atheneum, 1985), The Invention of the Zero (Knopf, 1993), and The One-Strand River (Knopf, 2008).

Kenney’s work has been described as being influenced by science, human evolution, magical reasoning and Celtic and classical literature.

The Writers Project provides ACC students and residents of Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties with exposure to nationally renowned writers, provides up-and-coming writers with a venue for reading, and supports fledgling writers with workshops and writers’ retreats.

The Writers Project is made possible with assistance from Poets & Writers, Inc., the New York State Council on the Arts, the ACC Faculty Student Association, the Adirondack Community College Foundation and Adirondack Community College with initial funding and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information on this program, please contact J. Courtney Reid at 743.2200, extension 2213 or via email at reidjc@sunyacc.edu.

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