{"id":2179,"date":"2010-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:00:00","slug":"final-writers-read-features-prolific-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2010\/final-writers-read-features-prolific-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Final &#8216;Writers Read&#8217; Features Prolific Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Award-winning poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf\" src=\"\/page_attachments\/0000\/1920\/julia-kasdorf.jpg\" \/>Award-winning poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf will read from her works at the fourth and final <a href=\"\/langlit\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read<\/a> of the year 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 18 in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU. <\/p>\n<p> Kasdorf is associate professor of English and women&#8217;s studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches in the MFA program in creative writing. <\/p>\n<p> She has published two collections of poetry with the University of Pittsburgh Press, &quot;Eve&#8217;s Striptease&quot; and &quot;Sleeping Preacher,&quot; recipients of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Great Lakes College&#8217;s Association Award for New Writing, respectively. A third collection, &quot;Poetry in America,&quot; is currently under submission. <\/p>\n<p> Her poems have been awarded a 2009 NEA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. She also published a collection of essays, &quot;The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life,&quot; winner of the 2002 Book of the Year Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature, and a biography, &quot;Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.&quot; Most recently, she co-edited the restored text of Yoder&#8217;s 1940 local color classic, &quot;Rosanna of the Amish.&quot; She is also co-editor of the anthology, &quot;Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn,&quot; published by NYU Press. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;The first time I read Julia&#8217;s poetry, I found my voice &#8211; at 43 years old,&quot; said <a href=\"\/personnel\/people\/show\/vd928\">Violet A. Dutcher<\/a>, chair of <a href=\"\/langlit\">EMU&#8217;s language and literature department<\/a>. &quot;This voice began to speak, and it &#8216;spoke&#8217; me through graduate school, my dissertation, my years at Kent State University, and it brought me here to EMU. I invite you to come hear Julia read from her work. Your voice will never be the same,&quot; she added. <\/p>\n<p> Admission to the program, which includes dinner, is $15. 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