Poet and author Tom Zoellner, will be giving a talk titled "Are We There Yet?: The Use and Abuse of Place Names for Poetic Effect" on Nov. 15. Tom Zoellner’s forthcoming book is "A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America" (Viking). He is also the author of "Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World," which won the Science Writing Award of the American Institute of Physics, and "The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire." He has worked as a contributing editor for Men’s Health magazine and as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Tom Zoellner, a creative nonfiction writer and journalist, joins the English Department of Chapman University this year. Website: http://tomzoellner.com/ The Daily Show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-2-2009/tom-zoellner

TALK WITH TOM ZOELLNER: November 15, 1:00 pm at the Wilkinson Founders Chapel - Fish Interfaith Center.

POETRY READING BY TOM ZOELLNER: November 15, 7:00pm at the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, 2nd floor Leatherby Libraries.

Hosted By: Wilkinson College, Department of English