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A Reading with Poet Diane Seuss
December 7, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Please join us for a reading with poet and nonfiction writer Diane Seuss, presented by the Ohio University Program in Creative Writing. Book signing and reception to follow.
Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. She earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University. Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Georgia Review, Brevity, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and the Missouri Review, as well as The Best American Poetry 2014. She was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Colorado College in 2012, and she has taught at Kalamazoo College since 1988.
Read samples of her work here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53141/song-in-my-heart
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/jesus-his-cup
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/still-life-with-turkey
https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n2/poetry/seuss_d/betty_page.shtml
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/you-like-it-dont-you-you-like-it-hard-and-cold/
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/that-new-york-skirt/
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/candy/
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/gyre/
http://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/i-hoisted-them-two-drug-dealers/