BLOUNTVILLE – Poet and Radford University professor Jim Minick visits Northeast State Technical Community College on Monday, April 30 for a reading of poetry from his first book of poems entitled, “Her Secret Song.”
The book chronicles Minick’s relationship with his Aunt Ruth and her struggles with “elephant man’s disease,” loneliness, cancer and the road leading to her death. He will read and discuss his work at noon in L106 of Basler Library. Admission is free.
Minick grew up in rural south central Pennsylvania. He earned an M.A. from Radford and a B.A. from Lycoming College. He teaches writing, American literature, and Appalachian literature at Radford. His research is in Appalachian literature and folklore, composition theory, and agricultural and ecological writing. Minick recently released his second collection of poems entitled “Burning Heaven.”
A former blueberry farmer known throughout Southwest Virginia as “the blueberry expert,” Minick now tries to grow good words in addition to his own food. His book of essays, “Finding a Clear Path,” was published in 2005.
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