BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:Visiting Poet Kathy Fagan\, Oct. 13Visiting Nonfiction Writer K athy Fagan\, Oct. 13\n\nThe English Department's creative writing program p resents visiting poet Kathy Fagan giving a public reading of her work on Oc t. 13\, at 7:30 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel. \n\n \n\nFagan is the author of s ix collections and co-founder of the MFA program at Ohio State University. \n\n \n\nFagan’s visit to Ohio University follows closely after the publica tion of her latest collection\, Bad Hobby\, which was released on Sept. 13 by Milkweed Editions. That press describes the book as one that “thinks—har d. About lineage\, about caregiving. About time. It paces ‘inside its head\ , gazing skyward for a noun or phrase to / shatter the glass of our locked cars & save us.’ And it does want to save us\, or at least lift us\, even i n the face of immense bleakness\, or loneliness\, or the body changing\, fa iling.”\n\n \n\nFagan’s first full-length collection\, The Raft (Dutton\, 1 985)\, was a National Poetry Series selection\, while her next volume\, Mov ing & St. Rage (University of North Texas\, 1999)\, won the Vassar Miller P rize in Poetry. Sycamore\, Fagan’s 2017 collection from Milkweed Editions\, was a Kingsley Tufts Award finalist.\n\n \n\n“Kathy Fagan is a nervy comma ndo in poetry’s resistance to the routinely explicable\,” said Mark Hallida y\, Distinguished Professor of English in the College of Arts & Sciences.\n \n \n\nOf Fagan’s third book\, The Charm (Zoo Press\, 2002)\, Halliday adde d\, “One of the [book’s] best poems is 'Late Night Charm\,' in which the sp eaker copes with her uneasy flow of thoughts as she watches late-night TV w hile her lover falls asleep. The situation would seem comfortable\, and yet \, as Hopkins said\, ‘the mind has mountains\,’ and the speaker finds herse lf in a swirl of existential misgiving\, a feeling of our lives being merel y two-dimensional and illusory\, like television images. The authenticity o f the poem—its courage in not pretending to be wiser than it is—I find impr essive and moving.”\n\n \n\nFagan’s poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\ , The New York Times\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Nation\, among other pub lications. She currently teaches poetry at the Ohio State University\, wher e she also co-edits the OSU’s The Journal and the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series. DTEND:20221014T003000Z DTSTAMP:20241124T174508Z DTSTART:20221013T233000Z GEO:39.326316;-82.099419 LOCATION:Galbreath Chapel SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visiting Poet Kathy Fagan\, Oct. 13 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_41057818191910 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/visiting_nonfiction_writer_kathy_fagan_ oct_13 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR