Sarah Cooper with Eugene Platt
vie, 13 oct
|Unitarian Church, Gage Hall
Canadian-American poet Dr. Sarah Cooper is a Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Clemson. See About the Event for more information.
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13 oct 2023, 19:00 – 20:30 GMT-4
Unitarian Church, Gage Hall, 4 Archdale Street, Charleston, SC
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Dr. Cooper is the author of two poetry collections: Permanent Marker (Paper Nautilus, 2020) and 89% (Clemson University Press 2022). Her poems also appear in Lunch, Sinister Wisdom, Iron Horse and in Poem-A-Day. As a professor she has received the Holman Award for teaching, was a 2021 LGBTQ+ Faculty Excellence Award winner, a 2022 Gentry Award winner for teaching excellence and the 2022 Tee A. Corrine Fellow at the University of Oregon.
Eugene Platt, an octogenarian with a military service-connected disability, was born in Charleston, South Carolina. After serving in the Army (11th Airborne and 24th Infantry Divisions), he earned degrees at the University of South Carolina and Clarion University of Pennsylvania as well as a Diploma in Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. As a young poet, he was active on the reading circuit, giving over 100 public readings of his work at colleges, universities, and libraries across the nation. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland…