Poetry Reading with Dr. Laura Passin - Professur für Amerikanistik

Poster for the poetry reading with Dr. Laura Passin. In addition to the information about the reading, the poster has a light turqouise background with a darker turoquise rectancle in the middle. On this rectancle you can see a photo of the author and a cover of her book "Borrowing Your Body" which, also on a light turquoise backgorund, shows a woman wearing an astronaut's helmet in a pink claw-footed bathtub inf ront of a circle showing a night sky and a sattelite. The information about the reading is placed in pink boxes. The poster also shows the logos of the University of Bamberg and the University of Cologne. And information about the organizers and how to register.

Satuday, Jan. 22, 2022. 18:00 - 19:00, online reading, organized in collaboration with JProf. Dr. Judith Rauscher (U of Cologne)

Registration: american-studies(at)uni-koeln.de

Dr. Laura Passin is the author of Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat, 2021) and All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe Press). She earned her PhD in English Literature at Northwestern and her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Prairie Schooner, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Toast, Rolling Stone, Electric Literature, and Best New Poets. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net anthology. Laura lives in Denver with too many pets.

Dr. Passin has previously read her poetry at the University of Bamberg in 2015 and 2020 and taught on poetry in the winter term 2017/2018.