Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, April 3, 1990                   TAG: 9004030134
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: ABINGDON                                LENGTH: Short

POET TO GIVE READING AT VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS

Marion, poet-in-residence and associate professor of English at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., has given readings at nearby Virginia Intermont College and Emory & Henry College. He was in Washington County's poet-in-the-schools program from 1976 until 1984.

He is the author of three volumes of poetry. - Southwest bureau