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Mary Szybist Oct. 2014
Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endownment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and the Rockefeller Fondation’s Bellagio Center. Her work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her first book Granted won the 2004 GLCA New Writers Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A native of Williamsport, Pennesylvania, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches at Lewis and Clark College. From the National Book Award citation: Mary Szybist … recast(s) the myth of the Biblical Mary for this era. In vulnerable lyrics…with extraordinary sympathy and a light touch of humor, Szybist probes the nuances of love, loss, and the struggle for religious faith in a world that seems to argue against it. This is a religious book for nonbelievers, or a book of necessary doubts for the faithful. Photo credit: Joni Kabana. This event is co-sponsored by the Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture and Fine Arts Programming.