Gnawed Bones: A Poetry Reading
Peggy Shumaker
Sunday, 27 Feb 2011 at 4:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Peggy Shumaker is the Alaska State Writer Laureate. Her new book of poems, Gnawed Bones, is a meditation on mortality and the natural world. Schumaker's many other books include the lyrical memoir, Just Breathe Normally, and six collections of poetry. Her nonfiction has appeared in anthologies like Under Northern Lights and A Year in Place as well as Prairie Schooner and Ascent. Shumaker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, was poet in residence at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell, and served as president of the Associated Writing Programs board of directors. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, she currently teaches in the low-residency Rainier Writing Workshop. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Creative Imagination.The Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination is an environmental literary festival featuring readings, poetry performances, panel discussions, documentary films and book signings. All events are free and open to the public - no registration required. For more information, click here.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Creative Writers’ Milieu
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- History
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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