Poetry Reading: Mary Ruefle '74
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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Mary Ruefle has authored numerous collections of poetry, including Trances of the Blast (Wave, 2013), and Indeed I Was Pleased With the World (Carnegie Mellon, 2007). Her nonfiction work, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave, 2012), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and her Selected Poems (Wave, 2010) won the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award. She has also published a comic book and is known as an erasure artist, whose treatments of 19th century texts have been exhibited in museums and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave, 2006). Her latest book is My Private Property (Wave, 2016). Ruefle received a BA in Literature from Bennington College and lives in Bennington, Vermont.