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The Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts welcomes Erica Dawson, an award-winning poet whose work has been called quirky and smart, for a reading in FSU's Osborne Newman Center on Thursday, Oct. 15. at 7:30 p.m. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public.

A native of Columbia, Md., Dawson is the author of two collections of poetry, “Big-Eyed Afraid” and the recently released “The Small Blades Hurt.” Her poems have appeared in countless journals as well as in several anthologies, including “The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets” and “Best American Poetry 2008 and 2012.” In addition to her published works, she has a freelance column called “Dark and Sinful” for “Creative Loafing Tampa.” In 2006, she won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize for her first collection of poetry, “Big-Eyes Afraid.” In 2014, she was awarded the bronze medal for poetry in the Florida Book Award for her second collection of poems, “The Small Blades Hurt.” The editor of “Tampa Review” and one of the editors of “Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations,” Dawson is an assistant professor at the University of Tampa where she directs the MFA program in Creative Writing.

“We are incredibly lucky to have Erica Dawson read here. Her work is smart, formally interesting and quirky,” said Gerry LaFemina, poet and director of the Center for Literary Arts. “Plus she herself is dynamic and energetic. It’s going to be a terrific event.”

This event is sponsored by the Frostburg Center for Literary Arts, the Frostburg Student Government Association, the Maryland State Arts Council and the Allegany Arts Council. The reception following the reading is sponsored by the African American Studies Program.

For more information, contact the Center for Literary Arts at 301-687-4340 or cla@frostburg.edu or visit www.frostburg.edu/cla/.

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