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BRIEF: Symposium to focus on poetry and scriptures

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

March 18, 2012

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On March 23 and 24 Dr. Willis Barnstone will speak on “Poetry as the Voice of the Divine in the Gospels and Gnostic Scriptures” as part of the Roger Williams Symposium at Washington State University in Pullman.

Barnstone is a translator and poet, a Guggenheim Fellow, Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry and professor emeritus at Indiana University.

The event is sponsored by Interfaith House at WSU and the Common Ministry. It is free and open to the public.

The event will be from 7 to 9 p.m. on March 23on the WSU campus in CUE Room 203. On March 24 it will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. atCommunity Congregational United Church of Christ.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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