Award-winning poet Dan Albergotti will read from his new book of poetry, "Millennial Teeth," on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in James J. Johnson Auditorium as part of Coastal Carolina University's Words to Say It series, which features published writers. The event is free and open to the public.

"Millennial Teeth" was issued by Southern Illinois University Press in its Crab Orchard Series in Poetry earlier this year. It is the second full-length collection of poems by Albergotti, who is an English professor and chair of the University's Department of English.

"The Boatloads" was Albergotti's first published poetry book, and he has two short collections, "Charon's Manifest" and "The Use of the World." Albergotti has also published his poetry in the Cincinnati Review, Five Points, the Southern Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII, as well as other journals and anthologies.

"Millennial Teeth," is described by the publisher as a "visceral collection …that maps a contradictory journey filled with longing and dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix of traditional forms and more experimental verse, Albergotti's volume lures readers inexorably into the poet's obsessions with mystery, doubt, ephemerality and silence."

Albergotti joined the CCU faculty in 2005. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Clemson University in 1986 and 1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina in 1995.

?? The Johnson Auditorium is room 116 of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration, located at 119 Chanticleer Drive E. in Conway.

For more information, call Cara Blue Adams at 843-349-2532.