Mary Ruefle

Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series welcomes poet and essayist Mary Ruefle at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, in the Board Room of Denison University’s Barney Davis (200 West Loop). Ruefle will read from her works and the event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit contact Anneliese Davis at 740-587-6207 or visit Denison.edu.

Ruefle is the author of “Trances of the Blast;” “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and “Selected Poems,” a winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose, and a comic book. Ruefle also is an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and they have been published in “A Little White Shadow.” Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Whiting Award.