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April 8: Creative Writers Reading Series
George Looney, distinguished professor of English and creative writing at Penn State Behrend, will read from his work – including new collections of poems and short stories – when the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series resumes on April 8. The 6 p.m. program, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed on Zoom; a link and details are available at www.behrend.psu.edu/readings.
Looney is the author of 12 books of poetry and three books of fiction. In 2020 he published two new books: “The Itinerate Circus: New and Selected Poems, 1995-2020” and “The Worst May Be Over: Stories,” which won Elixir Press’s Fiction Award. His other titles include “What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations,” which won the Red Mountain Poetry Prize, and the novel Report from a Place of Burning, which was selected for the Leapfrog Press Fiction Award. He serves as translations editor at Mid-American Review and edits Behrend’s internation
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Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently
Unfinished Murder Ballads, (Backlash Press, 2020). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from
Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of
Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
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Developing a writing practice and a reading practice takes time. There are so many little things that have gone into my own routine to make it challenging, to make it inventive, and to make me feel like taking chances on language, on subject, on different poetic forms is worth all that time spent not knowing if it’s actually being successful. I think being a confident writer comes not with production or success, but by being unafraid to fail. It’s so damn hard to look at it this way, but th
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