Dr. Paula Closson Buck, poet, former director of the writing program at Pitt-Bradford, will return to campus Oct. 16 for a reading from her work.
The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Mukaiyama University Room of the Frame-Westerberg Commons. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
“I'm pleased to be able to bring Paula back to share her work with our students and so those who knew her when she lived here can celebrate her recent successes,” said Dr. Nancy McCabe, professor of writing and current director of the Pitt-Bradford writing program.
Now a professor of English at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Buck is the author of three books of poems from LSU Press, most recently, “You Cannot Shoot a Poem.”
Her novel “Summer on the Cold War Planet” was published by Fomite Press in 2015.
Buck's poems and short stories have appeared in such prestigious literary magazines as Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and Southern Review.
She has been the recipient of several grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and spent six months on a Fulbright in Cyprus working on a collaborative project with two Cypriot visual artists in 2013.