Ithaca College

Acclaimed poet Dorianne Laux will give a reading, Q&A, and book-signing in Clark Lounge, Campus Center on Thursday, October 4 at 5:30 PM as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series.

Dorianne Laux is the author of five poetry collections —The Book of Men, The Book of Women, Facts About the Moon, Awake, and What We Carry — which have been awarded The Paterson Prize and the Oregon Book Award and been finalists for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. Also the co-author of the The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, Laux teaches poetry at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty member of Pacific University's Low Residency MFA Program. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Pushcart Prize winner.&

According to Poetry Foundation: "Laux’s free-verse poems are sensual and grounded, and they reveal the poet as a compassionate witness to the everyday. She observed in an interview for the website Readwritepoem, 'Poems keep us conscious of the importance of our individual lives ... personal witness of a singular life, seen cleanly and with the concomitant well-chosen particulars, is one of the most powerful ways to do this.' Speaking of the qualities she admires most in poetry, Laux added, 'Craft is important, a skill to be learned, but it’s not the beginning and end of the story. I want the muddled middle to be filled with the gristle of the living.'"

Learn more about the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at ithaca.edu/dvw.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Nick Kowalczyk at nkowalczyk@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-5146. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.