POET ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT TO BE REA VISITING WRITER AT U.VA. 

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 7 -- Award-winning poet Ellen
Bryant Voigt will be the Rea Visiting Writer at the University of
Virginia the week of March 27.
	Voigt, a Danville native who now lives in Vermont, will read
from her work at 8 p.m. Monday, March 27, in Room 153 Campbell
Hall.  She will give a talk about poetry at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March
29, in the Newcomb Hall Informal Lounge.  Both events are free and
open to the public.
	A graduate of Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and the
University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Voigt has taught at Goddard
College in Vermont, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
the Warren Wilson College graduate program for writers in Swannanoa,
N.C.
	Voigt's work has been collected is numerous anthologies and
she has been widely published in the country's most prestigious
magazines and journals.  Her poetry books include "Claiming Kin"
(1976), "The Forces of Plenty" (1983), "The Lotus Flowers" (1987)
and "Two Trees" (1992).  Her many awards include a Guggenheim
fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Pushcart
Prize, and the Emily Clark Balch Award given by the Virginia
Quarterly Review.
	The Rea Visiting Writer program in the U.Va. English
department is supported by the Dungannon Foundation of New York.
The foundation's president, Michael M. Rea, a book and art
collector, is a 1952 alumnus of the University.
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March 6, 1995