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Award winning poet CD Wright will be on campus this Thursday, February 2nd to kick off Villanova's 14th annual Literary Festival. Wright's reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema. A reception and book signing will follow. We hope to see you there! Click here for more information on the 14th Annual Villanova Literary Festival.

The 2012 Villanova Literary Festival lineup has been finalized, and we are in for a great round of readings this spring. All of the readings will be at 7:00 p.m. in the Connelly Center. February 2: Poet C.D. Wright Her poetry includes One with Others (volume; 2011 Lenore Marshall Prize); Rising, Falling, Hovering (volume; Griffin Poetry Prize); One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (volume; 2003); and Deepstep Come Shining (book-length; 1998). Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the Bunting Institute. February 21: Poet and Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair Juan Felipe Herrera The son of migrant farm workers, he attended UCLA, Stanford, and the University of Iowa. His work includes Half of the World in Light (2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award) and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border (2008 PEN West award). Among his honors are two National End...