Randolph College Visiting Writer Series Features Anthony D'Aries Feb. 2

Anthony D’Aries will give a free reading on Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. in Smith Building’s Jack Lounge. The event, part of Randolph College's Visiting Writing Series, is free and open to the public. D’Aries is serving as Randolph’s Emerging Writer-in-Residence for the spring 2011 semester.

The winner of the 2010 PEN New England Discovery Award in Nonfiction, D'Aries is known for his work teaching creative writing and literacy within correctional facilities in Massachusetts as a volunteer for PEN New England’s Prison Creative Writing Program and in the Education Department at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston. This spring, he will teach a course with Changing Lives Through Literature, an alternative-sentencing program that fosters communication between teachers, probation officers, judges and ex-offenders through the discussion of classic and contemporary literature.