Poet lonsinger Inaugurates Spring Writers on the Shore Series February 18

SALISBURY, MD---Poet dawn lonsinger inaugurates Salisbury University’s spring Writers on the Shore series 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 18, in the Worcester Room of the Commons.

The assistant poetry editor for Kore Press and Tupelo Quarterly, lonsinger is the author of Whelm, winner of Lost Horse Press’ 2012 Idaho Prize in Poetry. An assistant professor at Muhlenberg College, PA, she is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient and was runner-up for the Poetry Society of America’s prestigious Emily Dickinson Award.

Other accolades have included four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes, the Scowcroft Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems and lyric essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Guernica: A Magazine of Arts & Politics, Columbia Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, Cincinnati Review, Poetry East, The Massachusetts Review and Subtropics, among others.

Sponsored by the English Department and Writers on the Shore, admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-543-6030 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.