Lory Bedikian reading her work in Fresno, CA

The Fresno Poets’ Association and

Fresno State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing

present readings for Spring Semester 2012

Lory Bedikian will read from her manuscript, The Book of Lamenting, for which she won
the 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Bedikian received her BA from UCLA with an emphasis
in Creative Writing, Poetry, and her MFA in Poetry from the University of Oregon. Her poems
have been published in the Connecticut Review, Portland Review, Poetry International,
Poet Lore, and Heliotrope, among other journals, and have been included in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles. 


Friday, February 17, 7 p.m.: Madden Library, 5200 N. Barton Ave. ML 34, Fresno CA 93740-8014, Room 2206. Reception to follow.