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<p>The Soyka Fund for the Humanities at Misericordia University is sponsoring the free reading, &#8220;Pilgrims, Poets &amp; Saints: From Sinatra to Springsteen,&#8221; on Monday, March 18 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. by poet and author Angela Alaimo O&#8217;Donnell, Ph.D., in the second floor Founders Room of Mercy Hall.</p><p>The poems address O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s native Northeastern Pennsylvania, the enduring legacy of family, and the ways in which people&#8217;s lives are defined by the pattern of their pilgrimage. The reading is open to the public.</p><p>A native of West Wyoming and graduate of Wyoming Area High School, O&#8217;Donnell teaches courses in English literature and creative writing at Fordham University in New York City and is associate director of Fordham&#8217;s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies. Her publications include two chapbooks, and five collections of poetry: &#8220;Moving House&#8221; (2009), &#8220;Saint Sinatra&#8221; (2011), &#8220;Waking My Mother&#8221; (2013), &#8220;Lovers&#8217; Almanac&#8221; (2015), and &#8220;Still Pilgrim&#8221; (April 2017). In addition, she authored the memoir, &#8220;Mortal Blessings&#8221; (2014).</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell is a Flannery O&#8217;Connor scholar and poet. Her critical biography, &#8220;Flannery O&#8217;Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith&#8221; (2015), won first prize for excellence in biography from the Association of Catholic Publishers. O&#8217;Connor was a Southern Gothic novelist, short story writer and essayist from Savannah, Georgia (1925-1964), whose Catholic faith influenced her writing of two novels and 32 short stories.</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell recently completed a book-length study of O&#8217;Connor and race, as well as a collection of 101 poems that channel the voice of O&#8217;Connor, entitled &#8220;Andalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O&#8217;Connor.&#8221; The latter two books are forthcoming in spring 2020 from Fordham University Press and Paraclete Press, respectively.</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Web Award, and the Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing. She is also a regular contributor to and former columnist for America magazine.</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree at Penn State University, and a master&#8217;s degree and Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She resides in Bronxville, New York.</p><p>For additional information about the poetry reading, contact Matthew Nickel, associate professor of English, at mnickel@misericordia.edu or 570-674-8021.</p><style>
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Misericordia University plans poetry reading for March 18