Best-selling poet featured in MSUM’s McGrath Visiting Writers Series Sept. 17
Best-selling poet Todd Bass will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. and read from his work at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17 in MSUM’s Comstock Memorial Union room 101 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series. It’s free and open to the public.
Boss’s best-selling debut poetry collection, YELLOWROCKET, was published to rave reviews in 2008 by W. W. Norton & Co. His award-winning poems have appeared in THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, and many others. His poems have been nationally syndicated on public radio and in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry.”
Boss grew up just across the poverty line on an 80-acre cattle farm near Fall Creek, Wisconsin. He earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska–Anchorage. For the past five years, Todd has been the Director of External Affairs at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. He lives in north suburban Saint Paul with his wife and two children.
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