Opportunity to Hear Poet Douglas Goetsch

"I am writing to let you know that the award-winning poet Douglas Goetsch, the University of Central Oklahoma English department's 2008-09 Artist in Residence, will be giving a free public reading at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September twenty-fourth, in the Dean's Reception Room in UCO's Liberal Arts Building (LAR 211). Refreshments will be served, and a reception will follow the reading.

Mr. Goetsch has taught writing to the gifted, the incarcerated, undergraduates, post-graduates, and continuing education students since the 1980s. He served for fourteen years as a member of the English faculty at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and he then established and directed the creative writing program at Passages Academy, a network of schools that serves court-involved youth in New York City. He has been on staff at the Stonecoast Writing Conference, The Frost Place, The Dodge Poetry Festival and, for nine years,at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

Mr. Goetsch's books of poetry include Nobody's Hell (Hanging Loose Press, 1999), The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State, 2004), which won the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and four prize-winning chapbooks. He is the recipient of awards from Prairie Schooner, MARGIE, Slipstream, and The Chautauqua Literary Journal, and he has also received two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, many Pushcart Prize nominations, and the Donald Murray Prize for writing on the teaching of writing. Mr. Goetsch's poetry, reviews and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at PoetryDaily and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in numerous anthologies. "