The next event in the “Out Loud Bellefonte” poetry series will feature two local poets this Friday, 3/24, 7 pm: Lee Peterson and Leah Poole Osowski. The event will be held in the fellowship hall behind St. John’s Episcopal Church, 120 W. Lamb Street, Bellefonte, PA.
Lee Peterson’s most recent collection of poems, In the Hall of North American Mammals, won the 2021 Cider Press Review Book Award (Cider Press Review, 2023). The Needles Road, a chapbook, was a Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series selection (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022). Her first full-length collection, Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia, was selected by Jean Valentine for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, 2004). Peterson lives in State College and teaches writing and works with international students at Penn State University’s Altoona campus.
Leah Poole Osowski is the author of hover over her (Kent State University Press, 2016), chosen by Adrian Matejka for the 2015 Wick Poetry Prize, and Exceeds Us (Saturnalia, 2023), winner of the Alma Award. Her poetry has appeared in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, ZYZZYVA, Gettysburg Review, and Ninth Letter, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, and Quarterly West. She has received fellowships from Image Journal’s Glen Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center, and is poetry editor of Raleigh Review. Originally from Massachusetts, she holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She was the 2018 Emerging Writer in Residence at Penn State Altoona.
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