Poet Cleopatra Mathis will perform a reading of her work at noon Monday in Banks Recital Hall at Brenau University in Gainesville.

A Q&A session with Mathis will follow in the Writing Center at the Trustee Library at 3 p.m. She is appearing as part of the Georgia Poetry Circuit.

Since 1982, Mathis has directed the Creative Writing Program at Dartmouth College, where she is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor of the Art of Writing. She has published six collections of poetry. Her work "What to Tip the Boatman?" won the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001.

Other prizes for her work include the Peter Lavin Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, the Robert Frost Resident Poet Award, the May Sarton Award and two Pushcart Prizes. Her work appears frequently in magazines, anthologies and textbooks, including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and The Southern Review.

A native of Ruston, La., Mathis graduated from Southwest Texas State University in 1970.

She taught high school for a while, then earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1978. She published her first book of poems the following year.

For more information on the event, call 770-534-6195.