A Poetry Reading with Karin Gottshall

Karin Gottshall, Associate Professor of English, will read poems from her new book, Eclipse Season. A Q & A will follow the reading. 

“Eclipse Season is a stunning and restless meditation on a speaker tormented (and seduced) by memory, attempting to orient and reckon in the present moment…. Karin Gottshall’s poems are threaded with an almost supernatural loneliness, placing her speaker in a tradition of spiritual reckoning through the wound of unsteady attachment to the turned-away parent: the mother haunts the book and the daughter’s house. The invasion is paradoxical, as it is also a continuous emotional absence. […] I am grateful for this book’s gift of language, as much as its gift of silence.” —Bianca Stone