What: David Lehman talk

When: Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m.

Where: The Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Downer Ave.

David Lehman, the first visiting writer of the fall in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Creative Writing Program, will be at the Hefter Conference Center on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m.

Lehman is the author of six books of poetry, including 2005's “When A Woman Loves A Man” an two "journals in poetry,” all from Scribner's.

Lehman, a book critic and writer for Newsweek, currently teaches writing and literature in the graduate writing program of the New School in New York.

His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.

Robert Olen Butler, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, says, “Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world. David Lehman is such a writer … ‘When A Woman Loves A Man’ is truly an important collection.”

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