Thursday, February 10, 2011
Todd Boss to deliver first spring RopeWalk Reading February 17
Todd Boss
Photo courtesy of Daniel Corrigan
Contact for more information:
Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 Boss is the author of Yellowrocket, a collection of poetry that was selected as the 2009 Midwest Booksellers Honor Book for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Best American Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Prize in 2009. His work has also been syndicated on NPR and in Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry" column. Born on a cattle farm in Fall Creek, Wisconsin, Boss holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Alaska-Anchorage. He is the founding editor of Flurry, an online journal of wintry poetry from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas and the co-founder of www.motionpoems.com, a poetry film project that turns poems into animated stories. Presented by USI's College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers Union. Publications by Boss are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, call Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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