MCC Daily Tribune

Visiting Poet, Diane Seuss to Read at MCC

On Wednesday, November 9, from 12-12:50 p.m. poet Diane Seuss will be giving a live zoom reading of poems from her most recent book frank: sonnets, which earned Seuss the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The zoom link is  https://monroecommunity.zoom.us/j/85011526259?pwd=d0U1ZXNVZGQzMFBNRG5JRUxJY3lCUT09 and the event is free and open to all members of the MCC community.

While persons from the larger community are also welcome, Seuss’s question and answer portion following the reading will focus on members of the MCC community.

Diane Seuss was born in Indiana and raised in Michigan. Seuss is the author of the poetry collections Frank: Sonnets (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018); Four-Legged Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Georgia Review, Brevity, Able Muse, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and the Missouri Review, as well as The Best American Poetry 2014. She was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Colorado College in 2012, and she has taught at Kalamazoo College since 1988. Seuss earned a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University. 

Anthony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy
11/01/2022