November 7, 2001 SELINSGROVE, Pa. - Award-winning poet Philip Brady will continue the 20th year of Susquehanna University's Visiting Writers Series with a free public reading Monday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. The reading, previously scheduled for Isaacs Auditorium, will be in the meeting rooms of the Degenstein Campus Center. Brady's latest collection of poems, Weal, won the 1999 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. His first collection, Forged Correspondences, was chosen for Ploughshare's "Editor's Shelf" by Maxine Kumin in 1996. Brady has held residencies at The Virginia Center for the Arts, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, and Cimelice Castle, Czech Republic. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and the Poets' House in Donegal, Ireland. His poetry has been translated into many languages including French, Spanish, Polish, Norwegian, and Hebrew. Brady earned a bachelor's degree at Bucknell University and a doctorate at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Poetry and fiction by Brady have appeared in over 50 journals in both the U.S. and Ireland, including Abraxas, The Belfast Gown Literary Supplement, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Graham House Review, The Honest Ulsterman, The Journal of Irish Literature, The Laurel Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Pacific International, and Poetry Northwest. Brady currently teaches at Youngstown State University where he was named distinguished professor of scholarship in 1999. Contact: Sam Alcorn 570-372-4119 #sa/772#