Ralph Salisbury and Ingrid Wendt to read at Kenyon College

GAMBIER, Ohio (October 14, 2004) Ralph Salisbury and Ingird Wendt will read from their works of poetry and short fiction at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 20, in Kenyon College's Peirce Lounge. Sponsored by the Kenyon Review, the reading is open to the public at no charge.

Ralph Salisbury is of Cherokee Indian and Irish descent and is a poet, storyteller, translator, and editor. He received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and has traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway, studying the cultural and oral traditions of the Sami people. He has also lectured in Germany. He taught at the University of Oregon from 1951 to 1994.

Salisbury's most recent books include The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories, One Indian and Two Chiefs: Short Fiction, and Pointing at the Rainbow: Poems from a Cherokee Heritage.

Most recently on the creative writing faculty at Antioch University in Los Angeles, Ingrid Wendt has been a Senior Fulbright Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and has taught for over twenty years in arts-in-education programs in several states. Her teaching guide, Starting with Little Things: A Guide to Writing Poetry in the Classroom, is in its fourth printing. In addition to her reading, Wendt will lead a workshop for Kenyon Review associates and Kenyon students who volunteer in the Mount Vernon schools.

Wendt is the author of Moving the House and Singing the Mozart Requiem, which received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry.