Oct. 24, 2002

Contact: Charla Jenkins, University Theatre, (785) 864-2684.

Award-winning poet, translator to read works, visit KU classes

LAWRENCE -- Elaine Terranova, award-winning poet and the translator of Euripides' "Iphigenia at Aulis," being staged at the University of Kansas through Nov. 2, will visit KU Nov. 1 and 2 to speak to English classes and read some of her latest works.

Terranova's poetry reading is slated for 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Border's Books and Music, 700 New Hampshire Street in downtown Lawrence.

Terranova is the author of "The Cult of the Right Hand," published by Doubleday in 1991, which won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and "Damages," published by Copper Canyon in 1996. Her translation of "Iphigenia at Aulis" is included in the Euripides III volume of the Penn Greek Drama Series. Her latest book of poems is "The Dog's Heart," published by Orchises in 2002.

"Iphigenia at Aulis" is being performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly Oct. 24 through 26 and Oct. 29 through Nov. 2, and at 2:30, p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27. All performances are in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.

General admission tickets for "Iphigenia at Aulis" are on sale through the KU ticket offices: University Theatre, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS; SUA Office, 864-7469; and on-line at www.kutheatre.com. Tickets are $12 for the public, $6 for all students, and $11 for senior citizens. Both VISA and MasterCard are accepted for phone and on-line orders.

Terranova's visit is presented by KU's Department of Theatre and Film and the University Theatre.

The reading is free and open to the public.