[View ALL News Press Releases] The Morrison Gallery Poetry Series presents two noted writers, Squire Babcock and Dale Ray Phillips, on Thursday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in Elizabethtown Community and Technical College's Morrison Gallery in the Administration Building.

Squire Babcock worked as a ballroom dance instructor, farm hand, weigh-man in a cotton gin, hunting guide, pool table repair mechanic, small business owner, carpenter, free-lance writer and blues drummer before committing to writing and teaching. He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and is currently Associate Professor of English at Murray State. His writing has appeared in national publications including The Colorado Review, The Louisville Review, and the Old Hickory Review. His novel The King of Gaheena (Motes Books) was published this year, and he is currently completing a memoir entitled Wrestling the Horned Beast about a prominent Louisville man who at 43 decided to become a woman.

Dale Ray Phillips' stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, and elsewhere. His collection, My People's Waltz (1999, HarperCollins/Perennial) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He holds a M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas and has taught at a variety of universities, including the University of Arkansas, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Clemson University, and most recently Murray State.

For more information, contact Mick Kennedy at 270-706-8407.