THOUSAND OAKS, CA. - Award-winning writer Christopher Howell will read his poetry at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, in California Lutheran University’s Lundring Events Center.

A military journalist during the Vietnam War, Howell has published nine collections of poems. The University of Washington Press published his most recent collection, “Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected,” in May. His poems, translations and essays also have been widely published in anthologies and journals including Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review and Harper’s Magazine.

Howell has received three Pushcart Prizes and numerous fellowships, including two from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been awarded the Helen Bullis, Vachel Lindsay and Vi Gale prizes, and he has twice received the Washington State Book Award. A native of the Northwest, Howell is a professor at Eastern Washington University’s Inland NW Center for Writers in Spokane, senior editor for Eastern Washington University Press and director of Willow Springs Books. He is also director and principal editor for Lynx House Press.

Lundring Events Center is located in the Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, which is north of Olsen Road near Campus Drive on the Thousand Oaks campus.

For more information on the free public event, e-mail Jack Ledbetter at ledbette@callutheran.edu. Lundring Events Center is located in Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center.