Poet Laren McClung to speak at Arcadia University Friday

Poet Laren McClung, author of "Between Here and Monkey Mountain" (The Sheep Meadow Press, poetry, April 2012, 64 pp.) is speaking at a free event tomorrow at Arcadia University. Below is a press release I received about the event from Arcadia University. McClung earned her undergrad and master's degrees from Arcadia, incidentally. Click here for an audio clip of McClung reading one of her poems, "For IbrahimQashoush."

 Arcadia University Hosts Author and Poet Laren McClung Oct. 26

 A Writers Return to Campus Lecture Series

LAREN McCLUNG

 Glenside — Arcadia University Writers Return to Campus will host author and poet, Laren McClung, ’01, ’03MAE on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in Grey Towers Castle. McClung’s lecture “At the Confluence of Rivers and Mouths: Poetry of War, Witness, and Imagination” is free and open to the public.

McClung also holds a graduate degree New York University.  She has been the recipient of a Teachers & Writers Collaborative Van Lier Fellowship and has led yearlong workshops in creative writing at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and in New York University’s Veterans Writing Workshop for Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans.  Her work has appeared in journals and reviews including the Massachusetts Review, War, Literature & the Arts, PN Review, and Cerise Press. She currently teaches at New York University. 

Arcadia’s Writers Return to Campus Series is part of the Writers program, which brings back to campus Arcadia alumni writers who have recently had a notable literary success in their lives.

The Writers Series also brings to campus writers of distinction—poets, novelists, short-story writers, memoirists, playwrights—and ranges from the well-established to the up-and-coming. Past guests include writers Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, Marilynn Robinson, Tobias Wolff and Richard Russo, as well as poet Jean Valentine. At each event, the writer gives a reading, followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. Books or CDs by the writer will be available for purchase. The events are free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Dr. Richard Wertime, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies in English and the Humanities, at 215-572-2963 or wertime@arcadia.edu.

About the Author:

Laren McClung is a poet from Philadelphia. She is co-editor of the anthology, Inheriting the War. She has been the recipient of a Teachers & Writers Collaborative Van Lier Fellowship and has led yearlong workshops in creative writing at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and in New York University’s Veterans Writing Workshop for Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans. Her work has appeared in journals and reviews including the Massachusetts Review, War, Literature & the Arts, PN Review and Cerise Press. She currently teaches at New York University.