Friday, March 23, 2012
In honor of National Poetry Month, Penn State Brandywine will welcome poet Mihaela Moscaliuc as the featured reader at its 16th annual Litapalooza Literary Festival at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3, in the Tomezsko Classroom Building lounge. (more)
Friday, October 07, 2011
Acclaimed poet and educator Sharon Olds will give the 2011 Emily Dickinson Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in 129 Alumni Hall, the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The lecture is free to the public. Olds is the author of eight highly celebrated volumes of poetry including "One Secret Thing" and "Blood, Tin, Straw." (more)
Friday, November 13, 2009
Robin Becker, professor of English and women's studies, is featured on the cover of the November/December issue of The American Poetry Review. Several of Becker's poems are published in the printed issue as well. Becker is the author of five collections of poems including The Horse Fair and Venetian Blue. She serves as Poetry Editor of The Women's Review of Books. (more)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Julia Kasdorf, a nationally recognized poet and associate professor of English at Penn State, has received a 2009 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete her current manuscript of poems, "Poetry in America." A faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts, she is a poet and writer with strong interests in religion, culture and the relationship between writers and communities. (more)