This is a Community Event (open to all).
Location: Festival Conference and Student Center Ballroom
Date and time: Tuesday March 24th, 2020 (6 pm - 7:30 pm)
Event Description: Join us and our Visiting Writer, Susannah Nevison, for a reading and discussion about the relationship between metaphor and disability in poetry, and the evolving role of disability within literary activism. Susannah Nevison is the author of Lethal Theater (The Ohio State University Press, 2019), the recipient of the Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize from OSU/The Journal, and Teratology (Persea Books, 2015), the recipient of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. She is also the author of In the Field Between Us, a collaborative collection with Molly McCully Brown (forthcoming from Persea Books in 2020). Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, The National Poetry Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Utah, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California, she lives in Virginia, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sweet Briar College.
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