Butterworth to inaugurate 2014-15 GU literary series

For the past several years, fans of literary readings have enjoyed an ongoing, annual event sponsored by Gonzaga University. The GU Visiting Writers series, which is free and open to the public, has brought such authors as Denis Johnson, Bharati Mukherjee and Jane Hirshfield.

The 2014-15 version of the series kicks off at 7:30 tonight at GU’s Cataldo Hall with a reading by GU faculty member Dan Butterworth . Butterworth’s latest collection of poetry is titled “The Clouds of Lucca.”

The rest of the series schedule: Oct. 21, poet Brenda Hillman; Nov. 20, writer Joanna Luloff; Feb. 18, writer Marilynne Robinson; March 25, poet Douglas Kearney; April 15, writer Michael Gurian.

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