Todd Davis/Patricia Clark Poetry Reading + MSU Press Dessert Reception

Todd Davis + Patricia Clark | april 12

Poets Todd Davis and Patricia Clark will join us Tuesday, April 12 for an informal talk, a reading, and a dessert reception hosted by the MSU Press. All of these events are free and open to the public!

--Talk: “Writing the Sacred: The Body, The World, & The Poem”
3 PM in the RCAH Reading Room--

What do we consider sacred and how does that shape... [read more]

Todd Davis + Patricia Clark | april 12

Poets Todd Davis and Patricia Clark will join us Tuesday, April 12 for an informal talk, a reading, and a dessert reception hosted by the MSU Press. All of these events are free and open to the public!

--Talk: “Writing the Sacred: The Body, The World, & The Poem”
3 PM in the RCAH Reading Room--

What do we consider sacred and how does that shape our notions of our own bodies, the bodies of others, and the world that sustains all things? Join Todd Davis as he discusses his conception of the sacred and the ways he tries to represent the sacred in his poetry.

--Reading: 7 PM in the RCAH Theater--

Todd Davis teaches creative writing, environmental studies, and American literature at Penn State University’s Altoona College and in the MFA program at Penn State University Park. He is the author of three books of poems—The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe—as well as co-editor of Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets with poet Erin Murphy. His poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, has won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, and has appeared in numerous literary journals. Garrison Keillor has read Davis’ poems on The Writer’s Almanac, and former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser has featured his work in the syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry.

Patricia Clark is Poet-in-Residence and Professor in the Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University. Author of three volumes of poetry, her newest book is She Walks into the Sea. Clark has also published a poetry chapbook, Given the Trees, and co-edited Worlds in Our Words: An Anthology of Contemporary American Women Writers with Marilyn Kallet. She has twice won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize, Mississippi Review’s Poetry Prize and been honored as 2nd prize winner in the 2005 Pablo Neruda/Nimrod International Journal Poetry competition. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazine.


--Reception: following reading in LookOut! Gallery--

The MSU Press will host a dessert reception immediately following Todd Davis’s reading on April 12th in the RCAH LookOut! Gallery (2nd floor Snyder-Phillips Hall).** Broadsides by the featured readers will be offered as a gift to attendees at the reception. The broadsides were letterpressed at the RCAH by students and local printer, Arie Koelewyn. This event is free and open to all.


Coming Up...
April 19 - Anita Skeen
April 26 - "New Voices: A Night with Student Poets"

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