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Fox Cities Reads
The 2012 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 16-18 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
Author Biography
Faith Barrett is Associate Professor of English at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. She teaches courses in American literature and culture and creative writing/poetry. Barrett earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa. Her chapbook of poems, Invisible Axis, was published in 2001. She coedited, with Cristanne Miller, Words for the Hour: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry (2005). Barrett's scholarly work, To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press.
Additional Information
While the Fox Cities Book Festival has a rich history of celebrating writers and books from around the globe, you don’t need to travel far to find some of the country’s best poets. Join facilitator Cathryn Cofell for a sampling of three of northeast Wisconsin’s finest, each with considerable publishing, book and award credits to his or her name.
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Big thanks go to Atlas Coffee Mill for hosting monthly meetings for the Fox Cities Book Festival Board! We appreciate your support of the Festival and just can't thank you enough for providing a welcoming meeting space for us to plan and dream.






