The Department of English will host a reading by poet Mary Ann Samyn April 7, at 7:30 p.m., followed by a book signing, in the Robinson Reading Room of the WVU Downtown Library.
Samyn is the author of six full-length collections of poetry—Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2018); My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Poetry Prize (Oberlin College Press, 2013); Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009); Purr (New Issues, 2005); Inside the Yellow Dress (New Issues, 2001); and Captivity Narrative (The Journal Prize/Ohio State UP, 1999) —and two chapbooks, The Boom of a Small Cannon (Dancing Girl Press, 2010) and Rooms by the Sea (Kent State UP, 1994).
“Mary Ann Samyn’s poetry is imaginative, dexterous, beautiful, and surprising,” said Mark Brazaitis, WVU’s director of creative writing. “We are very fortunate to have her on our faculty. It’s always a wonderful experience when she reads her work on campus.”