ANN ARBOR—Poet Gibbons Ruark will give a free reading from his work as part of the University of Michigan Visiting Writers Series.

Ruark will read on Thursday (Oct. 11) at 5 p.m. in Hale Auditorium. Ruark’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, and Ploughshares and Poetry magazines. His poetry has been widely anthologized and recognized with three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pushcart Prize. A major collection of Ruark’s works, “Passing Through Customs: New and Collected Poems,” was published by Louisiana University Press in 1999. Ruark has taught English at the University of Delaware since 1968.

The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the U-M Department of English and the Office of the Provost, and continues throughout the year. For more information, call Ian Reed Twiss at (734) 615-3710.