Birds of North America: Drawing and Poetry with Susan Hagen, Nathalie Anderson, and Lisa Sewell

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Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume. She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area.  A 1993 Pew Fellow, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Susan Hagen is a Philadelphia artist, writer and educator engaged in social and environmental issues. Ms. Hagen’s artwork has been featured in museums and galleries throughout the U.S, has been a Fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, in Ballycastle, Ireland. Other honors include artist’s residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and the McColl Center for the Arts, as well as artist’s grants from the George Sugarman Foundation, the Leeway Foundation, and the Independence Fellowships in the Arts. Ms. Hagen is an Associate Professor at the Bucks County Community College and has taught workshops and master classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch, and Penland.

Lisa Sewell is the author of The Way Out, Name Withheld, Long Corridor and Impossible Object, winner of the Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works press. She has co-edited several collections of essays for Wesleyan University Press, most recently North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language, with Kazim Ali, and is working on a new collection with Jena Osman. Recent work is appearing from Split Rock Review, Ecotone, Louisiana Review and Prairie Schooner. She has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Leeway Foundation, among others. She teaches at Villanova University.