Writer's Reading Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson, who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife, reads from her work. A contributing editor to the literary magazine Shenandoah, Emerson is a professor of English and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Emerson lives in Fredericksburg with her husband, Kent Ippolito, a musician who plays bluegrass, rock, folk, jazz, blues, and ragtime music with various types of bands.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Creative Writing Program, in the Department of English.