MANSFIELD, PA—“ Poetry & Ecojustice: A Reading and Discussion”
will be the topic of a presentation by Melissa Tuckey on Thursday, March 5, 4 p.m. at Allen Hall, Room 104. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Tuckey is a poet, writer, and literary activist from Ithaca, NY. She is author of Tenuous Chapel, a book of poems selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic for ABZ First Book Prize; and Rope as Witness, a chapbook published by Pudding House Press.
Her work has been published in journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry, Poet Lore, Poetry International, and Verse Daily. Tuckey’s honors include a Fine Arts Work Center Winter Fellowship, and artist awards from DC Commission on Arts and Humanities and from Ohio Arts Council. She has a background in environmental activism, and is co-founder (with Sarah Browning and others) of Split This Rock, a national organization dedicated to poetry of provocation and witness.
She’s currently at work on Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, for University of Georgia Press and is guest editing a special eco-justice edition of Poetry Magazine with Don Share and Split This Rock which will appear later this year.
To learn more about Tuckey and her work, go to melissatuckey.net
Professor Lilace Guignard is organizing Turkey’s visit. It is sponsored by the Department of English and Modern Languages, the Institute of Science and the Environment and the Student Activities Office. Funding is provided by student activity fees.