03/13/2023

Category:

  • Academics
  • Creative Writing
  • English
  • Residential

FOREST CITY, IOWA, March 13, 2023 鈥Clear Lake Arts Center to host authors Oscar Oswald, Ryan Clark, and Lydia Knudtson. The event will be held at the Clear Lake Arts Center located at 17 S. Fourth St., Clear Lake, Iowa, 50428 on April 12, 2023. Reception with light refreshments stars at 6 p.m. and readings beginning at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A to follow.

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 wester myths and their realities. Oswald鈥檚 poetry has appeared in聽鈥淭he Antioch Review,鈥 鈥淐olorado Review,鈥 鈥淒enver Quarterly,鈥 鈥淪eneca Review,鈥 鈥淣ew England Review鈥澛燼nd聽鈥淔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 served as an assistant editor for 鈥淣oemi Press鈥 and as the poetry editor for聽鈥淲itness.鈥 His first book of poems, 鈥淚rredenta,鈥 was an Editor鈥檚 Choice manuscript from Nightboat Books, published in 2021.

Ryan Clark writes poetry through a unique method of homophonic translation. He is the author of the books聽鈥淎rizona SB 1070: An Act鈥 and聽鈥淗ow I Pitched the First Curve,鈥 and his poems have appeared in such journals as聽鈥淒IAGRAM,鈥澛犫淧ainted Bride Quarterly鈥 and聽鈥淵emassee.鈥 He teaches at Waldorf University as an associate professor of English and creative writing.

Lydia Knudtson is a soon-to-be college graduate from Waldorf University with a major in creative writing and a minor in communications. Born in Minnesota and moving often throughout her childhood, she doesn鈥檛 often fear change or uncertainty. These complicated aspects and abstracts of life are often depicted within Lydia鈥檚 writing; three of her pieces can be found in two issues of the Waldorf Literary Review. When she isn鈥檛 working, writing, or doing other schoolwork, she enjoys being an unprofessional botanist, weightlifter, yogi, and explorative nomad.

Jessi Myers, executive director at Clear Lake Arts Center said "We are thrilled to be hosting Oscar Oswald at Clear Lake Arts Center. Literary Arts is a pillar of our mission.聽Working with聽Waldorf to bring more opportunities to enjoy and contemplate poetry in our community is the type of partnership we strive to foster, now and in the future."聽

For more information, please contact Joe Milan at joe.milan@waldorf.edu or Jessi Myers at 641-357-1993.