03/13/2023

Category:

  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Residential
  • Academics

FOREST CITY, IOWA, March 13, 2023 鈥聽Waldorf University to host author Oscar Oswald on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The event is a part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Waldorf University English Department and Creative Writing Department. The reading from 5-6 p.m. is free and open to the public in the Lounge at the Luise V. Hanson Library.聽聽

Oscar Oswald is a poet and teacher at the University of Idaho; spending the entirety of his life in the west, you will find his poetry is engaged with western myths and their realities. Oswald鈥檚 poetry has appeared in 鈥淭he Antioch Review,鈥 鈥淐olorado Review,鈥 鈥淒enver Quarterly,鈥 鈥淪eneca Review,鈥 鈥淣ew England Review鈥 and 鈥淔ence,鈥 among other journals, and he has published prose and criticism on 鈥淟itHub鈥 and 鈥淭he Offending Adam.鈥 Oscar has a doctorate. in English and creative writing from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where he was a Black Mountain Fellow. He was assistant editor for 鈥淣oemi Press鈥 and poetry editor for 鈥淲itness.鈥 His first book of poems, 鈥淚rredenta,鈥 was an Editor鈥檚 Choice manuscript from Nightboat Books, published in 2021.

For more information, please contact Joe Milan at聽joe.milan@waldorf.edu.