Art of Poetry: Abby Minor
Palmer Museum of Art University Park, PAWednesday, March 2, 12:10 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art (Art of Poetry Series) Abby Minor, poet and author of The Velvet Season and Voices from Outside, Lit from Inside.
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Write Night
Elm Room 130 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA, United StatesStudent Writers: Mark your calendars for our next WRITE NIGHT … Join a community of student writers for our next night (ok, afternoon) designed to invigorate your writing life — … Continue reading Write Night
Poet Ed Roberson to read
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesRoberson's books include To See the Earth before the End of the World, The New Wing of the Labyrinth, City Eclogue, Atmosphere Conditions, Voices Cast out to Talk Us In, … Continue reading Poet Ed Roberson to read
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KATE DANIELS Reading: The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesKate Daniels is the author of four collections of poetry, including A Walk in Victoria's Secret (LSU 2011), her most recent. She is Professor of English and Director of Creative … Continue reading KATE DANIELS Reading: The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence
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Art of Poetry: Lisa Sewell
Palmer Museum of Art University Park, PALisa Sewell is the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out (Alice James Books) Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She is also co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The … Continue reading Art of Poetry: Lisa Sewell
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Tom Williams Reading–Mary E. Rolling Reading Series
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesTom Williams is the author of three books of fiction: The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’, and his latest, Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales. An associate editor of the American Book Review, he also chairs the English Department at Morehead State University in Kentucky.
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Public Poetry Project Reading
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesThursday, April 21 from 7:30 pm, Foster Auditorium Public Poetry Project Reading, sponsored by Pennsylvania Center for the Book, featuring the following poets and poems: "Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes" by Peter Oresick; "California" by Michelle Lin; "My Dark, Semitic Wiles" by Nicole Steinberg; and "Sundress" by Dawn Lonsinger.
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Ron Rash to Kick off Rolling Reading Series
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesRon Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to five other novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight, and Above the Waterfall; five collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won … Continue reading Ron Rash to Kick off Rolling Reading Series
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U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Read
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesJuan Felipe Herrera, Penn State's 2016 Dickinson Lecturer, is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera has published many collections of poetry, and is a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National … Continue reading U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Read
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Reading by Poet and Penn State Grad Ruth Ellen Kocher
Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United StatesRuth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Third Voice, (Tupelo Press, 2017), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely Gun (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014), and domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 PEN/Open Book Award. She lives in Erie, CO, and teaches … Continue reading Reading by Poet and Penn State Grad Ruth Ellen Kocher
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