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Mary Karr
webcast
Poetry Pavilion
4-4:30 pm
Book Signing
4:30-5 pm
Mary Karr is the author of four volumes of poetry, including the most recent collection, Sinners Welcome (HarperCollins, 2006). Her poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Parnassus. Her memoir, The Liar's Club, was a New York Times best-seller for more than a year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry and the Whiting Award, she is the Peck Professor of English at Syracuse University and lives in New York City.