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University Reading Series, Poet Martha Serpas

Wednesday, 21 February, 2018

The University Reading Series in the Department of English and Theatre -- with support from the Jesuit Center, the Ellacuria Initiative, and the Department of Theology -- presents poet Martha Serpas for a reading. 

Serpas will read from her latest collection, The Diener, which explores themes of loss and healing related to her work as a trauma Chaplain and her hometown in southern Louisiana, and her previous text, The Dirty Side of the Storm, which discusses envirnomental justice issues and spirituality. Both works will be on sale at the University Bookstore prior to the event and at the reading. 

Wednesday, February 21
5:00-6:15 pm
Kane Forum, Leahy Hall (second floor)
Light refreshments served

Martha Serpas is the author of three collections of poetry -- The Diener (LSU); The Dirty Side of the Storm (Norton); and Côte Blanche (New Issues). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Southwest Review, and Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, as well as in a number of anthologies, including the Library of America’s American Religious Poem and The Art of the Sonnet. She holds degrees in English and creative writing from Louisiana State, New York University, and the University of Houston, and a master of divinity from Yale Divinity School. A native of south Louisiana, she remains active in efforts to restore Louisiana’s wetlands. Since 2006 she has worked as a trauma chaplain at Tampa General Hospital. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Houston.

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Melissa Eckenrode

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Edward R. Leahy Jr. Hall, The Kane Forum

237 Jefferson Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510