January 7, 2004 SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) – Sandra Kohler, a Selinsgrove poet who won the 2002 Associated Writing Programs’ Award Series in Poetry for her second book, The Ceremonies of Longing, will read from her work as part of The Writers Institute’s Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna University. The reading will begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Meeting Rooms 2-4 of Degenstein Campus Center. The reading is free and open to the public. Kohler’s first book of poems was The Country of Women, published in 1995 by Calyx Books. The Ceremonies of Longing was published in November 2003 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Kohler says she is currently working on “a sequence of poems which focus on the great blue heron which frequent the shores of the Susquehanna River.” Kohler has taught writing and literature at all educational levels, including classes in poetry at Susquehanna University. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Massachusetts Review, American Poetry Review and The Southern Review. She has been awarded the Calapooya Collage Poetry Prize as well as two fellowships in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. Kohler is the fourth of eight writers scheduled to read at Susquehanna during the 2003-2004 school year as part of the Visiting Writers Series. On February 23, nonfiction writer Ted Conover will visit the university. Contact: Victoria Kidd 570-372-4119 #vk/1582#