The Word Works, Poet Lore, and The Writer’s Center present Café Muse, featuring Marianne Boruch and Katherine J. Williams. The chatroom opens at 7pm and features Classical guitar by Michael C. Davis and set to a photo slideshow. Registration is free but required to get the Zoom link. To do so go to https://sites.google.com/view/cafe-muse-events/home
Marianne Boruch (Professor, MFA, University of Massachusetts, 1979) is a poet who has taught at Purdue since 1987, developing and directing the M.F.A. Program from1987 to 2005, and the recipient of many grad/undergrad teaching awards until going rogue and emeritus in May 2018. Her work includes eleven collections of poetry—Dark Bestiary; The Anti-Grief; Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing; Cadaver, Speak; The Book of Hours (Copper Canyon Press, 2021, 2019, 2016, 2014 and 2011); Grace, Fallen from; Descendant; View from the Gazebo (Wesleyan University Press, 2008, 1993; 1985); Poems New & Selected; A Stick that Breaks and Breaks; Moss Burning (Oberlin College Press, 2004, 1997, 1995).
Katherine J. Williams is the author of Still Life (Cherry Grove Collections, 2022). She was Director of the Art Therapy Program at George Washington University and is now Associate Professor Emerita and an art therapist/clinical psychologist in private practice. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poet Lore, The Broadkill Review, The Delmarva Review, Christian Century, 3rd Wednesday, Passager, The Widow’s Handbook, and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, edited by James Crews. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.