Poets Catherine Barnett and Ellen Bryant Voigt will conclude the spring 2015 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Clowes Memorial Hall Krannert Room.

All events in the series are free and open to the public without tickets. For more information, call 317-940-9861.

Poet, editor, and teacher Catherine Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (2004) and The Game of Boxes (2012), which was the recipient of the 2012 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her other awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Barnett works as an independent editor and as Writer-in-Residence at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, where she teaches writing to mothers in the shelter system. She has been the Visiting Poet at Barnard College and teaches at the New School and New York University.

Ellen Bryant Voigt’s poems traverse the worlds of motherhood and family, the rural South, and music. Her 1995 collection Kyrie: Poems is a book-length sonnet sequence exploring the lives of people affected by the influenza epidemic of 1918–1919. She published a volume of selected poems, Messenger, in 2007. Her most recent book is Headwaters.

Voigt was a founder of the Goddard College low-residency MFA program, the first program of its kind, which is now the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and she continues to teach creative writing. She has also written a study of the sentence in poetry, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, and a collection of essays, The Flexible Lyric (1999). With Gregory Orr, she co-edited Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (1996), a selection of essays on writing.

Media contact:
Marc Allan
mallan@butler.edu
317-940-9822