Poet Ralph Angel will read from his works at the April 22 University Forum lecture.

He is the author of Twice Removed, Anxious Latitudes, and Neither World, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award. His works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, and The American Poetry Review.

He is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor at the University of Redlands.

On April 25, UNLV political science professor Dina Titus will present a slide-illustrated lecture titled "From Political Symbol to Nostalgic Icon: The Kitsch-ification of the Mushroom Cloud."

The image of the cloud that results from a nuclear bomb explosion has appeared repeatedly in the media and was used to build support for the arms race. Titus will examine the mushroom cloud's evolution from a symbol of fear into a nostalgic icon of a seemingly simpler and safer era.

Both lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History. All University Forum lectures are free and open to the public.

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and is underwritten by the Lodge Kalafatis Trust and the UNLV Foundation. Angel's poetry reading is also cosponsored by UNLV's Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and the International Institute of Modern Letters.

For more information on the series, call 895-3401 or send an e-mail to: forum@nevada.edu.