REBEKAH ORDERS LASAGNA

THE OIL HILL READING SERIES Presents Butler Faculty Poet JOHN JENKINSON at Butler Community College, in a deput reading from his first full-length collection, REBEKAH ORDERS LASAGNA.

El Dorado, Kansas - Poet John Jenkinson will read from his new book, Rebekah Orders Lasagna, published by the Woodley Press at Washburn University, at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 28, in the L.W. Nixon Library on the Butler Community College, El Dorado, Campus. This free event is open to the general public, and sponsored by the Division of Fine Arts and Humanities, Butler College English Department, The Quill and the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. A reception and book signing will follow.

A teacher of writing and literature at Butler, Dr. Jenkinson has
published widely in the academic and small press world, including
several chapbooks. A former Milton Center Fellow in Poetry, John
ponders deeply at the debris-strewn intersection of Art and Faith.

Jenkinson's work is intelligible, although not simplistic, and does not settle for the easy or the sentimental gesture; these poems have drawn praise from such varied quarters as Albert Goldbarth, who invokes John's "constant desire to get the words right, to lodge them in our memory . . ." to Scott Cairns, who declares that "Jenkinson mediates the matter of our pathetic circumstance with humor, a compelling cadence, keen intelligence, and reliably generous spirit."

Jeanine Hathaway adds, "In spiced and layered language, he blesses our place at the table and - attention! - in the food chain."

For the past 4 ½ years, Dr. Jenkinson has directed the Oil Hill Reading Series, bringing in writers of eminent stature, and others whose careers are in mid-stream. Developed to offer distinguished literary events to the El Dorado and Butler County community, The Oil Hill Reading Series is made possible through support and funding from the Center for Teaching Excellence, The Division of Fine Arts and Humanities, the English Department, the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, the L.W. Nixon Library, and community advocates.

For the best choice of seats, plan to arrive around 7:15.