Associate Professor of English, Dr. Joyce Sutphen.
Gustavus Adolphus College will host a Fall Poetry Classic on Wednesday, Oct. 17 to showcase a new anthology of Minnesota women poets, To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.
The first historical and contemporary anthology of Minnesota women poets, To Sing Along the Way is edited by three prize-winning poets including Associate Professor of English, Dr. Joyce Sutphen.
The Fall Poetry Classic will bring several of the Minnesota poets included in the anthology to campus including Candace Black, Nancy Paddock, Thom Tammaro, Katrina Vandenberg, Connie Wanek, and Cary Waterman. The poets will work with students and speak with faculty members during the day and then participate in a poetry reading at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall.
To Sing Along the Way recently received two awards: The 2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Association Honor Award for Poetry, and the 2007 WILLA Literary Award for Poetry.
The event is sponsored by the English department, the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Lecture Series, and the President’s office. For more information about the Fall Poetry Classic, contact Joyce Sutphen at 507-933-6083 or jsutphen@gustavus.edu.
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