Two Holy Cross Professors to Give Reading on Campus

As part of the Visiting Writers Lecture Series, Leila Philip and Bob Cording, both English professors at Holy Cross, will give a reading with selected students on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Levis Browsing Room (Dinand Library). The event is free and open to the public.

A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2003, Leila Philip is the author of The Road Through Miyana, a memoir of her apprenticeship to a master potter in Japan that won the PEN 1990 Martha Albrand Citation for Nonfiction, and the award-winning A Family Place, the story of her ancestral Hudson River home which mixes history, natural history, and autobiography as it examines our sense of home, and Hidden Dialogue: A Discussion Between Women in Japan and the United States. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Association of University Women. Her essays have been anthologized widely and she has published articles and essay nationally in major newspapers and magazines.

Cording has published four collections of poetry, including Life-List, which won the Ohio State University Press/Journal award, in 1987; What Binds Us To This World; Heavy Grace; and Against Consolation. He also has contributed more than 300 poems to magazines such as The Nation, Image, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry, DoubleTake, Orion, Paris Review and the New Yorker. Cording’s work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best Spiritual Writing of 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004; the Pushcart Anthology, 2002; and Godine’s Poets of the New Century. He has received a number of awards and grants, including a previous fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and fellowships from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In 1992, he was poet in residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, N.H. He is the James N. and Sarah L. O’Reilly Barrett Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Holy Cross.