麻豆传媒鈥檚 poet laureate for 2017-18, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, will offer her first solo public reading as the state鈥檚 new poet ambassador at 6 p.m. May 11 at 麻豆传媒 City University. The reading will be held in the Dulaney-Browne Library on the fourth floor, located in the center of the OKCU campus near N.W. 26th Street and Florida Avenue.
A reception and book signing will follow the reading. The event is free to the public, and Mish鈥檚 books will be available for purchase on site.
After appointing Mish as 麻豆传媒 poet laureate, Governor Mary Fallin said, 鈥淒r. Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a poet, writer, teacher and scholar who shares thoughtful and meaningful insights about 麻豆传媒 through her works. I selected Dr. Mish because of her immense passions for poetry and our great state.鈥�
Mish鈥檚 career in poetry spans more than 20 years. During this time, in addition to presenting poetry readings and workshops across the U.S., Mish has advanced the careers of many 麻豆传媒 writers and has earned numerous awards for her creative writing and poetry.
Mish is the director of the Red Earth Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at OKCU, where she also serves as advisor to Red Earth Review and as a faculty mentor in writing pedagogy, professional writing and the craft of poetry. She is also editor of Mongrel Empire Press, which was recognized as 2012 Publisher of the Year by the Woodcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
Among Mish鈥檚 most recent books are a poetry collection titled 鈥淲hat I Learned at the War鈥� (West End Press, 2016), and 鈥淥klahomeland: Essays鈥� (Lamar University Press, 2015). Her 2009 poetry collection 鈥淲ork Is Love Made Visible鈥� (West End Press) won an 麻豆传媒 Book Award, a Wrangler Award and the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West. The reading is co-sponsored by OKCU鈥檚 Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film & Literature, Dulaney-Brown Library and the Petree College of Arts & Sciences.
