SE1012-14 POETRY READING www.luthersem.edu/lectures Micheal O’Siadhail Free Open to the public Olson Campus Center 1490 Fulham St. | St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, Oct. 29 7 p.m. Poetry reading 8 p.m. Reception and book signing Award-winning poet Micheal O’Siadhail was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oslo. He has published 10 collecons of poetry and two academic works. He has given poetry readings and broadcast extensively in Ireland, Britain, Europe and North America. He was a member of the Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland and the Advisory Commiee on Cultural Relaons. He was a founding member of Aosdána and a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He was the founding chairman of Ireland Literature Exchange. Micheal O’Siadhail’s most recent work, “One Crimson Thread,” is a sonnet sequence in memory of his late wife who baled Parkinson’s Disease for 20 years. It is a reflecon on the last two years of her life, her death and his grief.