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Center for International Studies and the Franklin Center [Duke University] present A Reading by Nathaniel Mackey Thursday, November 1st 7.30 p.m. 240 Franklin Center 2204 Erwin Road (corner of Erwin and Trent Drive) Copies of recent works by Mr. Mackey will be available for purchase. Mr. Mackey will also participate in a lunchtime discussion on Friday, November 2nd from 12.15 to 1.30 p.m. at the Franklin Center. To reserve a space, contact Pam Gutlon, [log in to unmask] For more information on the visit of Mr. Mackey, contact Rob Sikorski, [log in to unmask] Biographical Information Nathaniel Mackey is the author of three chapbooks and three books of poetry, Eroding Witness (University of Illinois Press, 1985), School of Udhra (City Lights, 1993), and Whatsaid Serif (City Lights, 1998). He is the author of an ongoing prose composition, From A Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, of which three volumes have been published: Bedouin Hornbook (Callaloo Fiction Series, 1986), Djbot Baghostus's Run (Sun & Moon Press, 1993), and Atet A.D. (City Lights, 2001). He edits the magazine Hambone and is also the co-editor (with Art Lange) of Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose. He teaches literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has released a CD of his poems read to music, Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25 (Spoken Engine Records). Mackey's work spans an extraordinary range of voices and discourses, from philosophical to folkloric to erotic, with music always the connecting thread.