Belgian poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar will spend a week as writer-in-residence at Hamilton College, and will give a public reading of her work on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.
Bosselaar grew up in Belgium, where she worked as a talk-show hostess, commentator and voice-over for the Belgian and Luxembourg radio and television. She is the author of Artemis, a collection of French poems, published in 1977. She holds an MFA degree from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and is on the teaching staff at Emerson College in Boston.
Her first collection of poems in English, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, was published by BOA editions in 1996. This book was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, the National Poetry Series, and the Ohio State University Prize and won the Nicholas Roerich Prize. Her poems have been published in Ploughshares, Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review and The Washington Post, as well as in numerous anthologies. Her poem, "English Flavors," won first prize in the 1996 National Poetry Contest, judged by Edward Hirsch. Bossellar's second book of poems, Small Gods of Grief, will be published by BOA in August, 2001.
She is editor of Outsiders: Poems about Rebels, Exiles and Renegades and Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City and co-editor, with Kurt Brown, of Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, all from Milkweed Editions.
Bosselaar has worked as a teacher for the Writers in the Schools program in Colorado, directed a poetry workshop in Snowmass Village, CO, and co-directed the Aspen Writers' Conference from 1989 to 1992. More recently, she has taught poetry workshops at the Stonecoast Writers' Conference, the Catskill Poetry Workshops, South Florida Writer's Conference, the Frost Place Poetry Festival, and the Sarah Lawrence Summer Seminars for Writers, and was awarded a Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference.
As writer in-residence, Bosselaar will meet with students individually to discuss work received by her prior to her visit, and will participate in classes at the invitation of other faculty.
