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College at Oneonta News

February 24, 2009
 
FACULTY MEMBER TO READ POETRY AT SUNY ONEONTA
 

ONEONTA, N.Y. -- As an installment of the Red Dragon Reading Series, poet and scholar Roger Hecht, Assistant Professor of English at the SUNY College at Oneonta, will present a reading from his work at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, in the Craven Lounge of the Morris Conference Center at SUNY Oneonta. The reading will be followed by a reception. Admission to the event is complimentary, and members of the community are invited to attend.

Dr. Hecht is the author of a collection of poems, Lunch at the Table of Opposites, and several works on nineteenth-century American literature. His poems have been published in literary magazines across the country, including the Denver Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, and Mudlark. A member of the SUNY Oneonta faculty since 2004, he received the Delmore Schwartz Prize from Syracuse University, where he earned his doctorate.

More information about Dr. Hecht's reading is available from Dr. George Hovis of the SUNY Oneonta Department of English at (607) 436-2571.
 

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