Cougar news staff
Poet Cynthia Macdonald, founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, and fiction writer Alica Adams will take center stage tonight at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The writers will appear as part of the Margarett Root Brown Houston Writing Series, a joint venture of UH Creative Writing and Inprint Inc.
Macdonald, who founded and served as the first director of the UH program, will read from her sixth volume of poetry, I Can't Remember, which was published recently.
She is the recipient of the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Adams' 15th book, Medicine Men, was published last year, following a series of short stories that have appeared in several anthologies of America's best short stories.
Adams has received an Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship.
The reading will be held at 8 p.m. in the MFA's Brown Auditorium. The museum's Main Street doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free for students and seniors; for others, a $5 donation is requested.
The museum is located at 1001 Bissonnet, between Montrose and Main. The reading series' underwriters include the City of Houston, The Brown Foundation, Shell Oil and Continental Airlines.
For more information, call the Creative Writing Program at (713) 743-3013.