Arcadia
University Hosts Author and Poet Laren McClung Oct. 26
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Writers Return to Campus Lecture Series
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| 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.
