WAUKESHA, WIS.— On Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, poet Michael Kriesel will read at Carroll University at 7 p.m. in the Dorothy Goff Frisch Recital Hall of Shattuck Music Center, 218 N. East Ave., Waukesha. This event is sponsored by "Century Magazine," Carroll's annual student art and literary magazine. It is free and open to the public.

Kriesel is a widely published poet and reviewer living in the Wisconsin countryside near Wausau. He has written reviews for "Small Press Review" and "Library Journal." His publications include "Chasing Saturday Night: Poems about Rural Wisconsin," published by Marsh River Editions; "The Light of Fields," published by Alternating Current Press; "Whale of Stars," "Moths Mail the House" and "Feeding My Heart to the Wind," all published by sunnyoutside; and "Soul Noir," published by Platonic 3Way Press. Additionally, his poems have appeared in more than 200 journals, including "North American Review," "The Progressive" and "Nimrod."

Winner of the 2009 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Muse Prize, the Council for Wisconsin Writers 2003 Lorine Niedecker Poetry Prize and recipient of an Honorable Mention from the North American Review's 2008 Hearst Competition, Kriesel is the conference coordinator for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. He also served on the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission from 2006-2008. He is a lifelong Wisconsin resident, except for 10 years in the Navy as a TV journalist and newspaper editor.

For more information, call B.J. Best, instructor of English, at 262.951.3071.