Andi Stout Reading, Art of Poetry Series

Palmer Museum of Art University Park, PA

RESCHEDULED AFTER SNOW DAY 2/7: Poet Andi Stout hails from from Belington, WV, and teaches writing in Penn State's English Department.  Her first book, Tiny Horses Don’t Get A Choice, is set in contemporary Appalachia and explores regional challenges such as environmental crisis, threats to home and family, politics and struggle, and migration and education.

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Mary Gaitskill Reading, Fisher Family Writer in Residence

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States

Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica, and The Mare.  She has also written three story collections: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don't Cry.  Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.  … Continue reading Mary Gaitskill Reading, Fisher Family Writer in Residence

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Gabeba Baderoon Reading, Art of Poetry Series

Palmer Museum of Art University Park, PA

Gabeba Baderoon is the author of several poetry collections including A Hundred Silences, which was a finalist for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the Olive Schreiner Award, The Dream in the Next Body, and Silence Before Speaking. She received the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Poetry, and is currently an associate professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and … Continue reading Gabeba Baderoon Reading, Art of Poetry Series