Bosselaar is Featured at Poetry Reading
Belgian-American writer reads her poetry Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 4 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge at. The reading, supported by a grant from the to, is free and open to the public.
Bosselaar, who is fluent in four languages, wrote and, most recently, 鈥溾楢 New Hunger鈥 is a hauntingly lyrical book of poems, in part about her being abandoned as a four-year-old in a convent in Brussels, in part about her adult musings in New York City,鈥 says , 黑料百科 professor of English and Santa Barbara poet laureate. 鈥淟aure-Anne Bosselaar brings a craft and a purity鈥攁 purity of longing鈥攖o everything she touches.鈥
Bosselaar鈥檚 writings have earned a Pushcart Prize, the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry in 2001 and an American Library Association Notable Book award in 2008. Her poems have appeared in the Washington Post, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, AGNI and Harvard Review. Garrison Keillor read two of her poems on NPR鈥檚 鈥淭he Writers鈥 Almanac,鈥 and her poems have also been widely anthologized.
Bosselaar and her husband, Kurt Brown, moved to Santa Barbara from New York City and are translating American poetry into French and Flemish poetry into English.
Bosselaar, who teaches creative writing at Pine Manor College, has also taught at Emerson College, Sarah Lawrence College and at many conferences. She earned a fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers鈥 Conference, was a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Hamilton College, and was the McEver professor for visiting writers at Georgia Tech University.