This just in, verbatim, from Ted Webb of Morgantown Poets:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Author, educator and poetry editor Elizabeth Savage will be featured with Morgantown Poets at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, 2010, at Monongalia Arts Center (MAC).
The event is free and open to the public. The MAC is at 107 High Street, downtown Morgantown (beside Hotel Morgan).
Savage is an associate professor of English and co-director of women’s studies at Fairmont State University where she has been on the faculty since 2001. She is also the poetry editor for Kestrel: A Journal of Literature & Art.
Savage was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from Virginia Commission for the Arts for her series, “Jamestown Koan,” a collection of poems the author sees as “filling in the emotional cracks” of Jamestown’s early history. “Jamestown Koan” was recently published by Connotation Press. The fellowship encouraged Savage to continue working in the series form. Recently, this interest has led to a collaborative project with photographer Tim Berg entitled “The Book of Lonely Chairs.”
The author has devoted most of her recent writing to critical work on poetry. Her book manuscript, “True Value Expands: Lorine Niedecker, Gender, and Cultural Worth,” is close to completion. She has also completed a poetry manuscript, “Blue Bison.” Poems from this collection, as well as new work, have been published or are forthcoming in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Court Green, Jelly Bucket, and Connotation Press.
Savage was born and raised in Richmond, Va. She previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University after defending a dissertation in innovative feminist poetics. In Virginia, the author worked with the Richmond Women’s Poetry Workshop, a group closely connected with the Virginia Museum.
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CONTACT: Ted Webb, Morgantown Poets
304-285-8784 or click here to send e-mail to Morgantown Poets.
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