SU's Spring Writers on the Shore Series Returns
Wednesday February 12, 2025
By SU Public Relations
SALISBURY, MD---¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ presents its spring Writers on the Shore series 8 p.m. select Wednesdays during the semester in the Worcester Room of the Commons, unless otherwise noted.
Upcoming authors and events include:
- February 19 – Catherine Pierce: Pierce is the poet laureate of Mississippi and the author of four books of poems, most recently Danger Days. A new poetry collection, Dear Beast, and an essay collection, Foxes for Everybody, are forthcoming in 2026. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize anthology and The Nation, among other publications. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Mississippi State University.
- March 5 – Randon Billings Noble: Noble is an essayist. Her collection Be with Me Always and her anthology of lyric essays, A Harp in the Stars, were published by Nebraska Press. Other work has appeared in the “Modern Love” column of The New York Times, The Rumpus, Brevity and Creative Nonfiction. She is the founding editor of the online literary magazine After the Art and teaches in West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and Goucher College’s M.F.A. in Nonfiction Program.
- March 12 – Rachel Hanson: Hanson is the author of The End of Tennessee: A Memoir, and her nonfiction has won Best of the Net. Her work can be found in Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter and Juked, among other publications. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina - Asheville and is the executive director of the literary nonprofit organization Punch Bucket Lit.
- April 23 – Emily Rosko: Rosko is the author of three poetry collections: Weather Inventions, Prop Rockery and Raw Goods Inventory. She is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and poetry editor for swamp pink. She is a past recipient of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She teaches at the College of Charleston.
- April 30 – Scarab Launch, Great Hall, Holloway Hall: Students read selections from the newest issue of The Scarab, SU’s student-run literary journal. Free copies of the issue are available. The event is hosted by this year’s editor-in-chief, Donald Pasmore.
Admission is free and the public is invited.
Those planning to park on campus must register in advance for a .
For more information call 410-543-6445.
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