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Brian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army, including tours of duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. He will be giving a reading at the Effingham Public Library on Monday, November 14 at 6 p.m. in the Workman Room.

Turner is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection and other major national awards. Turner’s work has been published in National Geographic, the New York Times, Poetry Daily, Harper’s Magazine, and other fine journals. His recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, has been called, “achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.”

This event has been sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council.

No Registration Required.

For more information, call the library at 217-342-2464 x1, email info@effinghamlibrary.org or go online at www.effinghamlibrary.org