VenueCarlow University  

Date11/12/2016 

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCarlow University 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: The Madwomen Reading series presents the second annual Dorothy Louise Holley Memorial Reading
featuring a poetry reading by Diane Gilliam

Saturday, November 12, 2016
Kresge Center, Carlow University
Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.)
Reception and book signing following the reading
Free and open to the public
Free parking

Diane Gilliam is the author of four collections of poetry: Everything Ever, Everything After (Red Hen, Spring 2017), Kettle Bottom (2004), One of Everything (2003), and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook, 1999). She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Ohio State University. She has taught Spanish language and literature classes at Kent State and Ohio State; creative writing, poetry, and Appalachian literature at Converse College; and in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan University. She has also taught at the AROHO Writing Retreat for Women at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico; at regional writing workshops such as the Appalachian Writer’s Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky; and at the Highland Summer Workshop at Radford University in Virginia. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, The Massachusetts Review, Cortland Review, and Appalachian Journal, among other journals. She has received an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, The Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the most recent recipient of the Gift of Freedom from the A Room of Her Own Foundation.

Dorothy Holley’s creative energy and strong faith manifested itself in her love for gardening, storytelling, and writing about those things which profoundly touched her life. Dorothy’s daughter, Beth Piraino, established this endowment in memory of her beloved mother, recognizing the importance of the Madwomen in the Attic program in Dorothy’s life. As a Madwoman in the Attic, Dorothy found fellow writers and kindred spirits who shared their work and growth as published writers. While in her 80’s, Dorothy published four volumes of poetry: A Whole Quart Jar, The Garden Journals, Late Day Thoughts, and Dream Quartet.

In the compressed lines of Dorothy Holley's poems, we find the idiom of America in the 1930's-spare and straightforward talk. And just beneath these lines is the history of generations of farm life, with its choices as tough and unforgiving as the land itself. Hers is the song of a single voice of place—unsentimental and trustworthy—its idiosyncratic diction breathing the rhythms of history and lives lived. These poems are stunning in their reserve and their love of story. In A Whole Quart Jar, Holley transports us to the fields and the families, and we are surprised to find our own humanity there. –Jan Beatty

Supported in part by The Dorothy Louise Holley Endowment. Sponsored by Carlow University’s English Department, Creative Writing Program, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

For more information, please contact Sarah Williams-Devereux at sewilliams412@carlow.edu or Jan Beatty at jpbeatty@carlow.edu.

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