James Galvin gave a reading of his work at the Rialto Theatre in Loveland on Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. The reading was free and open to the public.
He also shared his work on the Colorado State University Campus on Friday, October 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the CSU Bookstore in the Lory Student Center.
His visit concluded with a seminar on writing techniques on October 21 at 11:00 a.m. in the Loveland Public Library. All events were free and open to the public.
James Galvin was born in Chicago in 1951 and raised in northern Colorado. He earned a B.A. from Antioch College in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1977. He has published several collections of poetry, most recently Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997 (Copper Canyon, 1997), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Lethal Frequencies (1995); Elements (1988); God's Mistress (1984), which was selected for the National Poetry Series by Marvin Bell; and Imaginary Timber (1980). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed prose book, The Meadow (1992) and a novel, Fencing the Sky (Henry Holt, 1999). His honors include a "Discovery"/The Nation award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. James Galvin lives in Laramie, Wyoming, where he has worked as a rancher part of each year all his life, and in Iowa City, where he is a member of the permanent faculty of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop.
James Galvin's work is currently available at the CSU Bookstore.