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March 17, 2004 Contact: Irene Ratliff
(847) 735-6010 or ratliff@lakeforest.edu

For Immediate Release

Irish Traditional Music
by Michael Donaghy Artist-in-Residence


Lake Forest, Ill.—Poet, musician, critic, and editor Michael Donaghy will be Lake Forest College’s artist-in-residence from Monday, March 29 through Friday, April 2. As part of his stay, Donaghy will perform traditional Irish music with Professor of English Richard Pettengill on Thursday, April 1 at 8 p.m. in the Coffeehouse in Commons, located on the College’s Middle Campus. The performance is free and open to the public. For more information please contact 847-735-5190 or 847-735-5277.

Donaghy has won numerous awards for his elegant and passionate poetry. Donaghy also works as a musician and composer within the genre of Irish traditional music. His published poetry collections include Shibboleth (Oxford University Press 1988), which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Errata (OUP 1993), which was selected for the New Generation Poets promotion and received an Art’s Council Writer’s Award. His most recent collection Conjure, (Picador 2000), won the Forward Poetry Prize Award and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His recent projects include Wallflower, a lecture on poetry with misplaced notes and additional heckling (a Poetry Society monograph) and a film, Habit.

Lake Forest College is a private, liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 46 states and 50 other countries.



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