Founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine, Deborah Ager, and honored poet Alison Stine will give a craft talk as part of this year’s Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series on April 15. The 4 p.m. lecture will be followed by a 7 p.m. reading of the poets’ works in McEwen 202.
Ager, recipient of several fellowships including those from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, is also author of Midnight Voices. Her poems are published in Best New Poets 2006, Best of the Tigertail Anthologies, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, and Quarterly West. She also co-directs the Joaquin Miller Cagin Poetry Reading Series in Washington, D.C.
Stine, was first published as a teenager in The Kenyon Review and Hanging Loose. Her poems and prose have since appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, New England Review, Gulf Coast, and other publications. Ohio Violence, her first book and winner of the Vassar Miller Prize, was published by The University of North Texas Press in 2009.
For eight years, The Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series has hosted some of the country’s most intriguing writers, giving students and community members an opportunity to experience a personal encounter with the authors they study.
Those who attend the free event have a chance to enter a raffle for a free, homemade pie from Upper Crust Bakehouse. The visiting artists will offer a book-signing of their works, which will be available to purchase on-site.
