Distinguished poet, Adrienne Su, will offer a reading as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 20 in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Adrienne Su is the author of five books of poems, most recently Peach State (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which was named a 2022 Book All Georgians Should Read. Her first book of prose, the essay collection Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet (Paul Dry Books, 2024), focuses on poetry and food.
Su’s poems, which have been described by Paisley Rekdal as “sky, smart, and accessible, formally sophisticated and moving,” appear in many anthologies, including six volumes of The Best American Poetry, as well as journals including Prairie Schooner, The Common, and The New Yorker. Among her awards are an NEA fellowship and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Frost Place, and Vermont Studio Center.
An Atlanta native, Adrienne Su lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is professor of creative writing at Dickinson College.