poetry – The Ellen Reeder

April 25, 2024

“I was only in awe:” Two Eclipse Poems

(photo credit: PSU Professor Julie Bernier, taken during totality at Coleman State Park) On April 8, students in Liz Ahl’s Creative Writing class were charged with writing “an eclipse poem.” Here are two of the resulting poems, by Dylan Tulk (“Eclipse”) and River Doumato (“We Were One”). Eclipse I went into the woods to ready myself.The sun feasted up...

Plymouth State University/Poetry/PSU Student Works

May 18, 2023

Centripetal 2023 launch!

Near the hectic end of this semester, PSU’s Poets and Writers gathered once again at the Groovy Noodle for a final open mic night. More importantly, we were celebrating the latest issue of Centripetal, our campus journal of arts and writing. Published once a semester, Centripetal highlights a beautiful collection of artwork, poetry, and fiction from the PSU community. In...

News/Poetry

April 22, 2022

Eagle Pond presents Susan Lilley

Cover of Susan Lilley’s Venus in Retrograde alongside a photo of the author. Eagle Pond is back next Tuesday! Susan Lilley is the author of Venus in Retrograde (Burrow Press 2019) and the chapbooks Satellite Beach and Night Windows. A Florida native, she served as Orlando’s inaugural Poet Laureate. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf...

Events/Poetry

September 15, 2021

Travis Lau Lecture and Poetry Reading

The CoLab’s Intersectionality Talks will be hosting a poetry reading from Travis Lau! The reading will be on Thursday, September 23, at 7:00pm in Frost House. For more information and to view Lau’s work, visit his website, here. His newest book, Paring, will be available for purchase at the reading. Registration for the Zoom broadcast of the poetry reading is available...

Events/Poetry

October 14, 2020

COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems

PSU English alumni Cara Cristina Chanoine and Josh Nicolaisen, as well as PSU just-about-to-be-alumnus Griffin Nyhan, and PSU English faculty member Liz Ahl all have poems in a new anthology, COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems, edited by NH poet laureate Alexandria Peary. $2 from each copy sold will be donated to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Alumni/Poetry/PSU Student Works/Students/Teachers

April 27, 2018

Reading at a Distance: World War I Word Clouds

For the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, I decided to write a blog post on poetry written during the war. As I sorted through various war poets such as Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edgell Rickword, a compilation on the Poetry Foundation website stuck out to me. It wasn’t so much the poems themselves that caught...

Literature/PSU Student Works

November 11, 2017

Poet Jenny Johnson on Queer Literature and Genre

On November 7th, award-winning poet Jenny Johnson came to Plymouth State University for a reading from her new book, In Full Velvet. Johnson’s performance was part of the Eagle Pond Authors’ Series, which brings diverse and revered poets to Plymouth State’s campus throughout the year. In Full Velvet tackles issues of gender, nature, and sexuality, and has been said to “speak into the...

Literature/Plymouth State University

September 25, 2017

The Eagle Pond Authors’ Series Presents: Jenna Le

The Eagle Pond Authors’ Series will bring Jenna Le to the Silver Center on Wednesday, September 27 at 7PM for a reading of poetry. Recently, Le’s 2016 poetry collection, A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora, took second place in the 2017 Elgin Awards. The award was hosted by the SFPA, or Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. This is far from her first...

Plymouth State University

November 8, 2016

PSU Poets and Artists Blaze A Novel Trail In New Exhibit

PSU’s Museum of the White Mountains has a new exhibit entitled, Finding Place On Paper: Contemporary Poets and Printmakers Explore The White Mountains. Assembled by curator and Associate Director of the Museum of the White Mountains Cynthia Robinson, English professor and poet Liz Ahl, printmaking coordinator and professor Kimberly Ritchie, and co-curator Parker Potter, the exhibit marries pieces of unique artwork...

Faculty/Plymouth State University/Students

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