On April 23, Liz Rosenberg and Jerry Mirskin will read from their new books in celebration of National Poetry Month at 3:00 in Alumni Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.
At 6:30 on the 23rd, Rosenberg will offer a workshop on Writing for Children and Young Adults; At 6:30 on the 24th, Mirskin will offer a poetry workshop. Seats are reserved for MFA students; please email clementsb@wcsu.edu in order to reserve a spot.
Liz Rosenberg is an award-winning poet, novelist, reviewer, and author of numerous books for children and young adults. Her first book of poems won the Agness Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and her most recent book of poems is just out from Mammoth Press. She has reviewed books for The Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and The Chicago Tribune. Her YA novel 17, won acclaim for its innovation of building a narrative out of prose poems. She is perhaps most decorated as a children's author, and her book The Carousel was featured on PBS's "Reading Rainbow." She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Binghamton University, where she has taught since the early 80s.
Jerry Mirskin has worked as a herdsman on a dairy farm, as a carpenter, and as a New York State Poet-in-the-Schools. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, and he is an Associate Professor at Ithaca College (he also occasionally teaches at Cornell). His first collection, Picture a Gate Hanging Open and Let that Gate be the Sun, was published in 2002, by Mammoth Books after being chosen for first prize in the Mammoth Books Prize for Poetry. A new collection, entitled In Flagrante Delicto, was released in October 2008.
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