Judith Vollmer Visits Campus Next Week
From Jeff Friedman, English: Poet Judith Vollmer will be on campus Wednesday, October 15, and Thursday, October 16, to talk with students and the campus community.
On Wednesday she will participate in a panel with KSC faculty Helen Frink, Sally Joyce, and Ali Lichtenstein titled “Pushing the Margins: Contemporary Women’s Literature,” at 4 p.m. in the Mountain View Room. The panel will explore issues of feminism and post-feminism, form and content, politics, and publication.
On Thursday at 4 p.m. she will read selections from her most recent book, Reactor (a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and her newest poems. Her other books include The Door Open to the Fire, Black Butterfly, and Level Green.
Vollmer has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has received residency fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the American Academy in Rome, the Centrum Foundation, and others. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and in the New England College MFA Program.
These events are sponsored by the dean of Arts and Humanities, the English and American Studies departments, the Women’s Studies program, Diversity & Multiculturalism, the Common Ground Multicultural Club, and the provost. For more information, contact Jeff Friedman at jfriedman1@keene.edu.
