Don Bogen at Salisbury State University

Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - 8:00pm
Salisbury State University, Commons, Worcester Room
1101 Camden Ave
Salisbury, MD 21801
United States

Free and open to the public.

Join Salisbury State University for a reading with Don Bogen and his newest collection of poetry, Immediate Song.

Don Bogen

Don Bogen is the author of five books of poems, including Immediate Song​, Luster and An Algebra, along with a critical book on Theodore Roethke and a translation of selected poems by the contemporary Spanish poet Julio Martínez Mesanza. Nathaniel Ropes Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, he serves as editor-at-large of the Cincinnati Review and divides his time between Cincinnati and Martinez, California. 

Poetry

Immediate Song

By 
Don Bogen

This is a collection about time—about memory, and remembrance, and how the past makes itself manifest in the world. A desk, a mailbox, a house delivering its own autobiography: in these poems, objects hold history, even if they’ve grown obsolescent, even when they’ve been forgotten.

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