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Join Marion Boyer and Barbara Sabol to discuss books by three contemporary poets. We will begin with Pattiann Roger’s Quickening Fields, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry, and move to Indigo, by Ellen Bass. Of her poetry, The New York Times says Bass’s work—about marriage and parenting, illness and recovery, small daily pleasures—cultivates an exuberance that’s born of, and balanced by, close watchfulness. In our final session we will discuss Wild Iris by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Louise Gluck. Wild Iris is a stunning collection of introspective poems written in lyrical language and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
No matter how familiar you are with poetry we invite you to an open and welcoming conversation. Each session we will also offer generative writing prompts based on our reading.
This class takes place remotely online via Zoom. Register to receive the zoom link and class instructions.
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Marion Starling Boyer is a professor emerita of Communication and has published six poetry collections.
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 remotely online via Zoom
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