Emily Rosko
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night is an opportunity to hear original works read by local writers in many genres, from poetry to prose, culminating in an extended closing reading by an accomplished featured guest author. The final Open Mic Night of the year will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday, December 11, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. December’s featured author will be poet and College of Charleston professor Emily Rosko, author of Weather Inventions.
Open Mic will also include short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by a pantheon of local writers. To sign up in advance to read that evening, please email contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. Reading is not required to attend. This event is free and open to the public.
About the Featured Author:
Emily Rosko’s books include Weather Inventions; Prop Rockery, winner of the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize; and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is the editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and is poetry editor for swamp pink. She is a past recipient of the Stegner and Ruth Lilly fellowships. Her new poems have appeared recently in Bennington Review, Epoch, Laurel Review, New American Writing, Seneca Review, South Carolina Review, and Third Coast. She is professor of English at the College of Charleston.
“In Emily Rosko’s third poetry collection, Weather Inventions, she demonstrates how ‘beauty is thought into being.’ These poems are exquisitely crafted, honing the act of attention to a keen edge. Science, the pastoral tradition, meteorology, and the personal all interact and ultimately ask us to contend with the uncertainty of the world around us, its ‘unsolved riddle.’ Weather Inventions promises that ‘right at the edge of space’s midnight, we lose ourselves past seeing.’Rosko’s piercing gaze, her faith in this struggling life, is what moors us. This a book I plan to read and re-read, as the poems yield more with each new encounter.”—Rebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral
To learn more about the year-round educational programs of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, please visit www.patconroyliterarycenter.org.
