The Last Word...Open Mic Poetry Reading
Poems about Books as Objects
Featured Poet: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor, English
Performance and Premiere of "Heure"/ "Hour"
Poem by Antoine Graziani, book design by artist Anik Vinay, with production by students in the Artists’ Books and Writers’ Tales Seminar, Susan Schmidt and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney instructors
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney earned an MFA in Poetry from Brown University and teaches English literature and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross. She has won several awards for her writing, including the American Academy of Poets Prize; has published poems in Diner, The Worcester Review, the Journal of Irish Literature, and elsewhere; and has served as president of the Worcester County Poetry Association, an editor of The Worcester Review, and a board member of Poetry Oasis. Beth is haunted by Mad Sweeney, a seventh-century Irish madman and poet who appears in many of her poems. She is also working on a collection of poems about objects entitled Hand Me Down.