OU's Creative Writing Program: English Department

The English Department's Creative Writing Program at Oakland University

09/14/2021

The 2021 Maurice Brown Poetry Reading

featuring Mary Ann Samyn

Thursday, October 14th, at 5 PM

In the OU Tent behind Kresge Library

Reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Oakland University alumna Mary Ann Samyn is the author of six collections of poetry: Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, winner of the 2017 42 Miles Press Prize; My Life in Heaven, winner of the 2012 FIELD Prize; Beauty Breaks In; Purr; Inside the Yellow Dress; and Captivity Narrative, winner of the 1999 Ohio State UP/The Journal Prize. She has also published two chapbooks. She is Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing program at West Virginia University. She lives in West Virginia and in Michigan.

Samyn will give a craft talk, "The Frog in the Pond: On Not Missing What’s Right There," at 11:00 am, 10/14, via Zoom. Writers of all genres and alumni welcome! Email Professor Katie Hartsock to RSVP and receive the Zoom link at [email protected]

Sponsored by Oakland University’s Department of English and Creative Writing program, in memory of Professor Maurice Brown. With special thanks to Judy Brown and Mathilde Brown Swanson for their continued support of this reading series.