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Poet Dave Smith Continues Spring Literary Festival April 1

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University’s Writers-on-the-Shore Spring Literary Festival continues with a reading by poet Dave Smith 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, in the Montgomery Room at the Commons. Smith has published a dozen full-length volumes of poetry including The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems 1970-2000 (LSU, 2000) and The Roundhouse Voices: Selected and New Poems (Harper and Row, 1985). He has also authored a collection of short fiction, Southern Delights (1984), a novel, Onliness (1981), and a volume of essays, Local Assays (1985). He is the editor of The Essential Poe (1991) and The Pure Clear World (1982). His poems appear frequently in The New Yorker. Sponsored by the English Department, the reading is free and the public is cordially invited. A reception follows. For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.