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IRISH POET KATIE DONOVAN TO GIVE READING AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY IN LOS ANGELES ON OCTOBER 5

Irish poet Katie Donovan will give a poetry reading at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 5, 2004, in University Hall?s 4th Floor McIntosh Center. The reading, beginning at 7:30 p.m., is sponsored by the English Department, the Irish Studies Program, and the Women?s Studies Program, and is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow.

Donovan has published three books of poetry, Watermelon Man, 1993; Entering the Mare, 1997; and Day of the Dead, 2002, all from Bloodaxe Books(UK). She is also the co-editor, along with A. Norman Jeffares and Brendan Kennelly, of Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present, published by Gill and Macmillan in Ireland (1994) and by Norton in the US (1996), as well as co-editor with Brendan Kennelly of Dublines, an anthology about Dublin, also published by Bloodaxe Books, 1996, and the author of a discursive pamphlet, Irish Women Writers - Marginalised by Whom (Raven, 1988).

From 1990-2002 Donovan worked as a journalist with the Irish Times as a features and art writer, as well as an editor. In addition, she has had her poetry broadcast on and contributed to literary programs on RTE radio and BBC radio, and given literary talks, workshops and readings in many countries, including the US, the UK, France, Belgium, Denmark and Portugal. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed by such influential Irish poets as Eavan Boland, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, and Bernard O'Donoghue.

For further information, contact Debra Wong at 310.338.3051.

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