Award-Winning Poet in QC for Poetry Month

Rivermont is thrilled to welcome award-winning Chicago poet Elise Paschen to campus Friday, April 19th in celebration of Poetry Month.

Elise joins us for an entire day devoted to poetry, including:

• 2 presentations by Elise Paschen for Rivermont students
• Rebecca Wee, published poet and English Professor at Augustana, along with upper-level Augustana students, will lead activities including:
  • Interpreting famous authors through a pop-culture persona
  • Incorporating science terminology into poetry
  • Composing poetry in response to sounds - kazoos, ukulele, banjo
  • Exercises in renga, the paired exchange of Japanese tanka or haiku
• Rivermont faculty-led poetry recitations and workshops
• On-campus book sale hosted by Barnes & Noble
• Book signing and reception on the South Patio of the Historic Bettendorf Mansion

Elise Paschen is the co-founder of Poetry in Motion, a nation-wide program which places poetry in subways and buses, putting "poetry at the crossroads of American life."  She is the author of Bestiary, Infidelities (Winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize), and Houses: Coasts, as well as editor of The New York Times best-selling anthologies Poetry Speaks to Children and Poetry Speaks Who I Am.

For additional information on Elise Paschen, visit http://elisepaschen.com/