A question-and-answer session with Fairchild will be held at 4 p.m. in Room 212 of the Auditorium Building, located on West Hickory Street between Avenues A and B. The reading will begin at 8 p.m. in the Golden Eagle Suite, University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie Streets. A book signing will follow. All events are free and open to the public.

Fairchild, born in Houston, grew up working in small-town machine shops in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. He attended the University of Tulsa and University of Kansas, working part-time as a movie usher and English tutor to the Kansas basketball team. His third collection of poetry, "The Art of the Lathe" was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the California Book Award and others.

Fairchild's "Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest" earned him the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Fairchild teaches English at Texas Christian University and his next full-length book of poems, "Usher," is due out this fall.

For additional information, call the UNT Creative Writing Department at (940) 565-2126 or send questions to ruby_alqasem@yahoo.com. 

What: University of North Texas Visiting Writer Series, presented by the Department of English, featuring a poetry reading by B.H. Fairchild and book signing to immediately follow. Event preceded by a question-and-answer session.

When: April 10 (Thursday). Q-and-A session begins at 4 p.m. and reading at 8 p.m.

Where: Q-and-A session held in the Auditorium Building, Room 212, located on West Hickory Street between Avenues A and B. Poetry reading held in the Golden Eagle Suite, University Union, one block west of Welch and West Prairie Streets.

Cost: Free

Contact: Ruby Al-Qasem at (214) 240-5682 or ruby_alqasem@yahoo.com