PSU Poets to Read for UNST TEACHING & RESEARCH SERIES, THUR. 11/20

UNST TEACHING AND RESEARCH SERIES CONTINUES, THURSDAY, NOV. 20:

We are very pleased to continue our Teaching & Research Series with a poetry reading THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 4:00pm in the UNST conference room, Cramer 117. We will feature our very own talented poets including: Joel Bettridge, Tom Fisher, Rodney Koeneke, and Kaia Sand.

JOEL BETTRIDGE is the author of the poetry collection THAT ABRUPT HERE and co-editor of RONALD JOHNSON: LIFE AND WORKS, a gathering of essays on the increasingly influential poet. He teaches in the English Department and University Studies Program.

TOM FISHER is a poet and scholar of silence, whose research focuses on 20th-century poets who stopped writing. He teaches courses on literary modernism, popular culture, and American studies in the English Department and University Studies Program.

RODNEY KOENEKE is author of the poetry books MUSEE MECHANIQUE and ROUGE STATE. A new collection, RULES FOR DRINKING FORTIES, appears this fall. His teaching at PSU includes courses in History, International Studies, and University Studies.

KAIA SAND is the author of INTERVAL, selected as a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year, and co-author of LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERILLA POETRY AND PUBLIC SPACE. She co-curates the Tangent Reading Series, which pairs poets from around the country with writers and artists from Portland's vibrant creative community. Sand teaches courses in Popular Culture in the University Studies program.