Reported by Jake Weber

ALBION, Mich. – Dana Roeser, winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writer Award for Poetry, reads from her award-winning first book of poetry, “Beautiful Motion,” Thursday, February 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Albion College International House (corner of Hannah and Erie Streets).

University Press of New England (UPNE) described “Beautiful Motion” as containing “fast-paced, linear poems [that are] thoroughly and endearingly contaminated in the postmodern soup of advertising, self-help, science, pop media, and higher ed.” The book was UPNE’s 2004 Samuel French Morse Prize winner. Roeser has also won prizes for individual poems from the Indiana Review Poetry Prize competition and the Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.

Roeser is currently the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University. She earned her bachelor's degree at Tulane University and both a master's and master of fine arts degree at the University of Virginia. Roeser lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.

The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of private liberal arts colleges including Albion, Antioch, Denison, DePauw, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan and Wabash Colleges and the College of Wooster. GLCA awards and programs both support excellent scholars and artists, as well as enhance the educational activities of its member colleges.

This event is co-sponsored by the Albion College English Department and Stockwell-Mudd Libraries, and is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Albion College English Department at (517) 629-0232 or hmesa@albion.edu.

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