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Join Marion and Barbara to discuss three poetic masters writing in very different ways about what is off-center, imperfect, tattered or strange.


First, we will read Bonfire Opera and discuss how Danusha Laméris uses lyricism to express grief and rapture for the imperfect world. Secondly, we will turn to Diane Seuss’s Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl to examine the tension she creates between what is unlovely and in a gilded frame. Finally, we will read how Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars uses science, humor and science
fiction to transport us to the stars.


No matter how familiar you are with poetry we invite you to an open and welcoming conversation. In addition, every session will offer several generative writing prompts based on the topics and poetic style illustrated in each of the three books.


Reading Contemporary Poetry takes place remotely through Zoom.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022
1:00 pm
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3:00 PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
1:00 pm
 - 
3:00 PM
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
1:00 pm
 - 
3:00 PM
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Marion Starling Boyer

Marion Starling Boyer is a professor emerita of Communication and has published six poetry collections.

Barbara Sabol

Barbara Sabol’s third full-length collection is WATERMARK: Poems of the Johnstown Flood of 1889 (Alternating Current Press, 2023.) She is the associate editor of Sheila-Na-Gig online, and edited the anthology, Sharing This Delicate Bread: Selections from Sheila-Na-Gig online (2022.) Her honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Barbara earned an MFA from Spalding University.

This class takes place online via Zoom

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