Topics: American Literature Modern British Literature Poetics Possible Lecture Title: "The Shapes A Bright Container Can Contain:  Poetry's Infinite Variety."

Dr. Johnny Wink

Professor of English, Ouachita Baptist University

B.A., University of Southern Mississippi

M.A., PhD., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

    For many years, Dr. Wink's passion has been reading, writing, memorizing, thinking about, and talking about poetry.  He has published one volume of poems, HAUNTING THE WINERUNNER (August House Press) and has had roughly fifty poems appear in various publications (e.g., THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, THE PLAINS POETRY JOURNAL, THE KENTUCKY REVIEW, THE KANSAS QUARTERLY, MOONDANCE, and CHRISTIANITY IN LITERATURE).
    For twenty years, Dr. Wink has done a lot of speaking on the topic of poetry.  He has addressed various branches of the Poets' Roundtable of Arkansas, sundry Arkansas Arts Councils, and a good many elementary, junior high, and high school classes.  Dr. Wink believes poetry gets a bad press in our culture; therefore, through his work he strives to reverse that trend.

Dr. Wink is available for both workshop presentations and after-dinner speaking.

OBU Box 3667
Arkadelphia, AR 71998
870-245-5556

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