Writer and poetess Julia Levine who lives and works in Davis, Calif., will read her poems in the Bluffton University Musselman Library Reading Room Tuesday, March 16, at 4 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public.

Levine's poetry collections include Dutch-tender, Ask which received the Tampa Review Prize and Practicing for Heaven which was recognized with a 1998 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Levine has also received numerous awards including the Pablo Neruda Prize in poetry and five Pushcart Prize nominations.