Join us for a poetry reading by Marc Harshman, followed by a discussion with him about his work as a poet, author of fourteen children’s books, and as the Poet Laureate of West Virginia.
You are also invited to write with him and explore this topic more deeply during an online writing workshop on Thursday, Mar 13.
Read more about the Poets Laureate series here, featuring five poets in February and March.
About Marc Harshman
Marc is a poet and the author of 14 nationally acclaimed children’s books alongside Fallingwater: The Building of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpiece (co-authored with Anna Egan Smucker and illustrated by LeUyen Pham) an amazon Book of the Month, and The Storm, a Smithsonian Notable Book.
His children’s books have been published in Spanish, Korean, Danish, Japanese, and Swedish.
His collections of poetry include: Woman In Red Anorak (winner of the Blue Lynx Prize), Believe What You Can (winner of the Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association [Vandalia/WVU Press] and the Appalachian Book of the Year by the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival in Tennessee), Dark Hills of Home, and Following the Silence.
He was recently named the Appalachian Heritage Writer for 2024 by Shepherd University’s Appalachian Studies program and is co-winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award and his poem, “Dispatch from the Mountain State,” which appeared in the 2020 Thanksgiving edition of the New York Times.
His next full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from WVU Press later this year.
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