Thursday, February 06, 2025 - 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Hamilton Smith Hall
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #555555; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Thursday, Feb. 6th, 2025<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">5 p.m.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">210 Hamilton Smith Hall</span></p><h3 id="h3-sarah-stickney--heather-treseler" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 29px; color: #555555; font-size: 24px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Sarah Stickney & Heather Treseler</span></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #555555; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span class="A8" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN" xml:lang="EN" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Sarah Stickney</span>'s poems have appeared in journals such as <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Guesthouse Lit, Forklift Ohio</em>, and others. Her chapbook <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Portico</em></span> was selected by Thomas Lux as 2016 winner of Emrys Press's annual competition. Her co-translations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Guest in the Wood</em></span>, won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2014, and a more complete collection of Biagini’s translated work <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">To the Teeth</em></span> was published in September 2021. Her first full-length book of poetry, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Lion</em></span> was issued by MadHat press in May of 2024. Stickney teaches at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem; color: #555555; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Heather Treseler </span>is the author of Auguries & Divinations, which received the 2023 May Sarton New Hampshire Prize, and Parturition, which won the Munster Literature Centre’s chapbook prize in Ireland and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award. Her poems appear in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, and Kenyon Review. Her essays appear in Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and in eight books about American poetry. Recipient of the W. B. Yeats Prize, Narrative magazine’s annual poetry prize, and the Editors’ Prize at The Missouri Review, she is professor of English at Worcester State University and a scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. She lives outside of Boston.</span></p>
