The Indiana University Southeast Library will welcome celebrated Indiana poet Marianne Boruch for a public reception and poetry reading on Wednesday, November 13, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The event, held in the library’s third-floor reading gallery, is free and open to the community.
Marianne Boruch has authored eleven poetry collections, including her recent work Bestiary Dark (Copper Canyon Press, 2021), which reflects on Australia’s wildlife amid climate change and wildfires. Her literary contributions also span four essay collections, with the latest, Sing by The Burying Ground, set to release in 2024. Boruch has written two memoirs, including The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana University Press, 2011), chronicling a 1972 hitchhiking journey, and her forthcoming memoir, The Figure Going Imaginary (Copper Canyon, 2025), which draws on her experience studying human anatomy at Purdue University. Currently, she is working on her 12th poetry collection, tentatively titled In the Winter Ruins.
Boruch’s accomplishments include the Kingsley-Tufts Poetry Award for The Book of Hours, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Writers Award, and several honors from Purdue University, where she taught for 31 years before retiring in 2018. Her work has also been supported by fellowships and residencies from prestigious institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, she held an artist residency at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, where she explored ancient Roman ruins to inspire her poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, and many other literary journals.
Boruch lives in West Lafayette with her husband, where they raised their son.
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