Student 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=d0U1ZXNVZGQzMFBNRG5J
RUxJY3lCUT09 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.
Leuzzi, Anthony
English/Philosophy
11/01/2022