Winona State University’s Great River Reading Series continues with author and poet C. Mikal Oness at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20.in the North Lounge of Lourdes Hall.
Oness is the founding editor and director of Sutton Hoo Press, a literary fine press producing hand-made limited editions of poetry and prose.
His poems have appeared in numerous journals and his work has been awarded the Mahan Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Mary RobertsRinehart Award, and a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant.
Oness' book of poems, "Water Becomes Bone," was awarded the Posner Prize in Poetry by the Council of Wisconsin Writers. His most recent book,
"Oracle Bones," was selected for the Lewis & Clark Expedition Prize.
Oness' appearance at WSU is sponsored by the John S. Lucas Great RiverReading Series, the Residential College, and the College of Science andEngineering.
For more information call Debra Cumberland at 507-457-5444.