Award-winning poet Alice Notley will give a free public reading at UNLV at 7:30 p.m. April 15 in Frank and Estella Beam Hall, Room 241. The event is sponsored by UNLV's MFA International Program and the International Institute of Modern Letters.

Notley is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, including "At Night the States," the double volume "Close to Me and Closer... (The Language of Heaven) and Desamere," and "How Spring Comes," which was a winner of the San Francisco Poetry Award. Her "Selected Poems" was published in 1993. Notley's book-length poem, "The Descent of Alette," was published by Penguin in 1996, followed by the 1998 release of "Mysteries of Small Houses," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Her most recent book is "Disobedience." Notley lives in Paris .

For more information, contact Amber Withycombe at 895-0505 .