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Edison State Community College
Poem In Your
Pocket Day to Feature “Poetry That Startles”
Edison State Community College is pleased to invite community members
to Poem In Your Pocket Day at 12 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in
East Hall, Room 456 at the Piqua Campus.
Area poets are invited to bring a poem to read to the audience at this
annual event, and the featured poet will be Myrna Stone.
Stone is the author of five full-length books of poetry, including,
most recently, Luz Bones from Etruscan Press. The recipient of three
Ohio Arts Council grants, a fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, and
the 2001 Ohio Poet of the Year award, Stone’s poetry has appeared in
over fifty journals, including Poetry, Boulevard, The Massachusetts
Review, Southwest Review, Ploughshares, River Styx, Nimrod, and Crab
Orchard Review.
If you’re looking for rainbows and babbling brooks, Stone’s poetry is
not for you. In Luz Bones, she explores historic characters such as Eng
and Chang, Chinese twins joined at the sternum; Mae West, actress and
sex symbol; and Martin Luther, theologian. She is, according to
Katherine Coles, “haunted by and haunts her subjects.”
A collection on which Stone is now working takes her to burial plots
where grave robbers are unearthing corpses. The stories of the deceased
are frightening, disgusting, and interesting. And in the telling,
Stone’s language is sharply chiseled, graphic, and revealing.
The event is free and open to those who want to read a poem or just
listen. For more information, contact Dr. Vivian Blevins by emailing
vblevins@edisonohio.edu<mailto:vblevins@edisonohio.edu> or
calling 937.778.3815.
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