Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch, photo by David Dunlap
Sarah Wolfson talks with Marianne Boruch about the platypus, Pliny, and the discovery lurking in “the spill of words.” Read “The Lyrebird Hidden…” and “Every Available Blue…” in
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Sarah Wolfson: These poems are part of your forthcoming book,
Bestiary Dark, a project you launched as a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Canberra’s International Poetry Studies Institute. The purpose of your research was to observe Australian wildlife in order to write a bestiary. How did you first become interested in the bestiary genre?
Marianne Boruch: Is it an honest-to-Zeus
Case Writers-in-Residence presented virtually April 8
Office of University Relations, Western Illinois University
MACOMB The Western Illinois University Department of English will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writers-in-Residence, in a virtual format, Thursday, April 8.
This year s writers include Jennifer Militello, Crisosto Apache and Marianne Boruch. A question and answer session will be held over Zoom from 3-4 p.m. To obtain the link, email English Professor Erika Wurth at ET-Wurth@wiu.edu.
A reading by the authors will be streamed through the WIU English department s Facebook page from 5-6 p.m.
• Militello is the author of the poetry collection The Pack, and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, as well as four previous collections of poetry, including A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, called positively bewitching by Publishers Weekly, and Body Thesaurus, named one of the best books of 2013 by Best American Poetry. He
March 16, 2021 MACOMB, IL The Western Illinois University Department of English will host the Fred Ewing Case and Lola Case Writers-in-Residence, in a virtual format, Thursday, April 8.
This year s writers include Jennifer Militello, Crisosto Apache and Marianne Boruch. A question and answer session will be held over Zoom from 3-4 p.m. To obtain the link, email English Professor Erika Wurth at ET-Wurth@wiu.edu.
A reading by the authors will be streamed through the WIU English department s Facebook page from 5-6 p.m.
• Militello is the author of the poetry collection The Pack, and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, as well as four previous collections of poetry, including A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments, called positively bewitching by Publishers Weekly, and Body Thesaurus, named one of the best books of 2013 by Best American Poetry. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Best
Author Debra Spark on writing
Spark, who teaches writing at Colby, has released a new book of essays on fiction. Just don t ask her to reread her own early works.
By Joan Silverman
Maine novelist and Colby professor Debra Sparks Photo by Michael Harris
By now, you’d think Debra Spark might be a household name. Author, journalist and professor, Spark has penned four novels, two books about writing and countless essays on everything from humor to home design. She’s won awards and fellowships, and served as a judge for numerous writing competitions. Her latest book, “And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing,” derives from a series of lectures that she gave at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. In these essays, she combines memoir, problem solving and lessons on the writer’s craft. Vivid, warm and entertaining, the book includes references to a wide range of modern literature.