VenueCarlow University  

Date11/13/2015 

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Description and Reader Names: Madwomen Reading Series presents
The first annual Dorothy Louise Holley Memorial Reading
Featuring a poetry reading by Maggie Anderson
Friday, November 13, 2015
Kresge Room, University Commons, Carlow University
Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.)
Reception and book signing following the reading.
Free parking.

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.

Maggie Anderson is the author of four books of poetry, including Windfall: New and Selected Poems, A Space Filled with Moving, and Cold Comfort. She has edited several thematic anthologies, including A Gathering of Poets, a collection of poems read at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the shootings at Kent State University in 1970, as well as Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School and After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School. Her awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and the Ohioana Library Award for contributions to the literary arts in Ohio. The founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and of the Wick Poetry Series of the Kent State University Press, Anderson is Professor Emerita of English at Kent State University and lives in Asheville, NC. Her new collection of poems, Dear All, is forthcoming from Four Way Books.

In the compressed lines of Dorothy Holley’s poems, we find the idiom of America in the 1930s—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

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

This reading is supported in part by The Dorothy Louise Holley Endowment
and sponsored by Carlow University’s English Department, Creative Writing, and Women and Gender Studies.


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