{"id":594,"date":"2007-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.umw.edu\/news\/?a=594"},"modified":"2007-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"poet-and-novelist-to-read-from-her-work-at-umw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/16\/poet-and-novelist-to-read-from-her-work-at-umw\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet and Novelist to Read from her Work at UMW"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height: 150%\"><span>Award-winning poet and novelist Julianna Baggott will read from her work at the University of Mary Washington on Tuesday, October 30 at 5 p.m. in Combs Hall, Room 139.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The event is free and open to the public.<span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Baggott, assistant professor of English at Florida State University, published her first novel<em>,<\/em> &ldquo;<span>Girl Talk<\/span>,&rdquo; in 2001. &ldquo;<span>Girl Talk&rdquo;<\/span> was a national bestseller and was published by six publishing houses overseas.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>She has written several collections of poetry including most recently, &ldquo;<span>Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees,&rdquo;<\/span> which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series from Pleiades Press. Baggott&rsquo;s debut novel for children under the pen name N.E. Bode, &ldquo;<span>The Anybodies<\/span>,&rdquo; was a Children&rsquo;s Book of the Month Club selection, a Washington Post Book-of-the-Week, a Booksense selection and a People magazine book pick.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height: 150%\"><span><span><br>\n<\/span>Her work has appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Ms. Magazine, Glamour, TriQuarterly, and Best American Poetry 2000, as well as on NPR&rsquo;s &ldquo;Here and Now&rdquo; and &ldquo;Talk of the Nation.&rdquo; In addition, she broadcasts monthly hour-long specials in the voice of N.E. Bode on the XMRadio channel, XMKids.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height: 150%\"><span><span><br>\n<\/span>The UMW Bookstore will sell Baggott&rsquo;s books at the event, where she also will sign them. 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