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Kenny Fries at Access Living, March 19
2010-02-24
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Kenny Fries is the author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory, and Body, Remember: A Memoir, as well as editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. His books of poems includeAnesthesia and Desert Walking. He has been a Creative Arts Fellow of the Japan/US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment of the Arts, a Fulbright Scholar to Japan, and received a Creative Capital Foundation grant for innovative literature. He teaches in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.
Event at Access Living, March 19, 2010, 6:30 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. RSVP recommended at rlehrer@accessliving.org or 312-640-2119 |
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