Marci Nelligan reads "When you guide the rope" from The Ghost Manada by Marci Nelligan © 2016. Reprinted with permission from Black Radish Press and Marci Nelligan. This video was recorded during the Pennsylvania Center for the Book's event for the Public Poetry Project in 2018.

The Public Poetry Project is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book with support from the University Libraries, the Department of English in the College of the Liberal Arts, and William Brockman, the Paterno Family Librarian for Literature.

Each spring, Penn State's University Libraries host a reading celebrating the next year of the Public Poetry Project's poster series. Poets featured on the year's posters come to Pattee Library's Foster Auditorium and read their work, sign books, and take questions from attendees at the reading.

Poems are chosen by a committee composed of poets who have had work appear previously in the series. The committee is charged, year-to-year, with finding poems by poets with a connection to Pennsylvania—either by birth or a long period of residency. Other than that criterion, there are no other restrictions put on the committee. The resulting series reveals much about Pennsylvania as a place, but it reveals, also, just as much about the work and expansive qualities of poetry.

With a mission to study, honor, celebrate, and promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy in Pennsylvania (PA), the PA Center for the Book sponsors several literary awards and events, and develops a wide range of educational content across multiple media to connect with its broad audience and to celebrate PA's continued contributions to culture and literature.

PACFTB Website: [ Ссылка ]

To request a transcript of this video presentation, please email Caroline Wermuth, Outreach Coordinator for the PACFTB: cvw1@psu.edu

Poster Design by Nathan Valchar

PA Center for the Book YouTube Sound Logo composed by Stephen Hopkins, Ph.D.

Videography by Mara Katria & J. Jeff Ungar
Editing by Mara Katria: [ Ссылка ]

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