Jeredith Merrin, Ohio State English Professor Emeritus, will give a reading at Ohio State on Thursday, November 5th, at 7:30 PM, in 311 Denney.**
This event is free and open to the public.
CUP, a special honoree in the Able Muse Press poetry competition, is Merrin's new poetry collection; it is currently a finalist for the New Mexico/Arizona Book Prize. Her previous books, Shift and Bat Ode, appeared in the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series. She’s authored an influential book of criticism on Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, and her reviews and essays (on Moore, Bishop, Clare, Mew, Amichai, and others) have appeared in The Southern Review and elsewhere. Her poems may be found in Ploughshares, The Southern Poetry Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Berfrois, and The Yale Review. Merrin lives in Chandler, teaches the occasional class for the A.S.U. Piper Center, and is currently completing a chapbook having to do with owls.
**Merrin will be bringing copies of CUP for sale/signing, and she will be selling them far below the going Amazon price ($18.95) at just $12.00 each to her former colleagues and students.
For more information, contact Tammy Carl at carl.34@osu.edu.
Sponsored by the Department of English and its MFA Program in Creative Writing.
