Roberson'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, When Thy King Is a Boy and many others. “I’m not creating a new language. I’m just trying to un-White-Out the one we’ve got.” - … Continue reading Poet Ed Roberson to read
Kate 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 Writing at Vanderbilt University. The many recognitions she has received for her poetry include the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013-14.
Lisa 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
Tom 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.
Thursday, 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.
Ron 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
Juan 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
Ruth 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
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her work appears in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. She is fiction editor of The Kenyon Review and teaches at Grand Valley State University and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. Her debut novel … Continue reading Reading by Fiction Writer Caitlin Horrocks (Rolling Reading Series)
James Brasfield is the author of two poetry collections, Ledger of Crossroads and Infinite Altars, both available from LSU Press, and is translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha. Twice a Senior Fulbright Fellow, he has received fellowships in poetry from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a … Continue reading Poet James Brasfield to Read (Rolling Reading Series)