ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, March 3, 1996                  TAG: 9603010103
SECTION: BOOKS                    PAGE: F-4  EDITION: METRO 
                                             TYPE: BOOK REVIEW
SOURCE: MARY ANN JOHNSON, BOOK PAGE EDITOR 

BOOKMARKS

Hollins College will celebrate its 36th annual Literary Festival on Saturday.

Registration is free and begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Main Building. Readings will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Babcock Auditorium in the Dana Science Building. In the afternoon a panel of authors will discuss selected poems. Lunch may be purchased in Moody dining room, and all participants are invited to a reception with the writers in Dana Lounge.

Writers who will be reading from their work include John Engels, Lucy Ferriss and Allen Weir. John Engels has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry. His most recent book, "Big Water," is a collection of poems about fly fishing. Lucy Ferriss is a novelist and essayist who has taught English at Hollins and is currently teaching at Hamilton College in New York. Her novel "Against Gravity" is being published this month. Allen Weir, a professor at the University of Tennessee, has written three novels and a book of stories.

Joining John Engels on the afternoon panel are Jeanne Larsen and Eric Trethewey, both professors of English at Hollins. Among Larsen's many writings are the novels, "Silk Road" and "Bronze Mirror." A new book, "Manchu Palaces," will be published in the near future. Trethewey has written several books of poems, a prize-winning screenplay and many stories and essays for magazines and anthologies.

The public is invited to attend the daylong festival at no charge.

Bookmarks is a regular feature of the book page that will focus on books, writers and literary events of local and regional interest and importance.

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