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P O E T R Y R E A D I N G

www.luthersem.edu/lectures

Micheal O’Siadhail

FreeOpen to the public

Olson Campus Center1490 Fulham St. | St. Paul, Minn.

Thursday, Oct. 297 p.m. Poetry reading

8 p.m. Reception and book signing

Award-winning poet Micheal O’Siadhail

was educated at Clongowes Wood

College, Trinity College Dublin and the

University of Oslo. He has published 10

collections of poetry and two academic

works. He has given poetry readings

and broadcast extensively in Ireland, Britain, Europe and

North America. He was a member of the Arts Council of the

Republic of Ireland and the Advisory Committee on Cultural

Relations. He was a founding member of Aosdána and a

former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He was the founding

chairman of Ireland Literature Exchange.

Micheal

O’Siadhail’s most

recent work, “One

Crimson Thread,”

is a sonnet

sequence in

memory of his late

wife who battled

Parkinson’s

Disease for 20

years. It is a

reflection on the

last two years of

her life, her death

and his grief.