- Nicole Cooley is the 10th Florie Gale Arons Poet
- Reading set for Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in LBC
- Posted August 27, 2008
Department: Arons Poets
Nicole Cooley
The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women presents a reading with Nicole Cooley, the 2008 Florie Gale Arons Poet, on Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. in Kendall Cram Lecture Hall, Lavin-Bernick Center. A book signing will follow the free event, which is open to the public.
A critically acclaimed poet and professor, Cooley has published a novel and two books of poetry. Her first poetry book, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award. Her second book of poetry, The Afflicted Girls, about the Salem witch trials of 1692, was published in April 2004. The Library Journal chose it as one of the best poetry books of the year.
The Louisiana State University Press is set to release her next book, Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coast, in 2010.
Cooley, who grew up in New Orleans, received her master's degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop and her doctorate from Emory University. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College -- City University of New York, where she directs the new MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
Florie Gale Arons graduated from Newcomb College in 1950. Her daughters established the poetry program in 1999 in honor of her 70th birthday. It continues today in her memory. Mrs. Arons' posthumously published collection, Unspoken Words, is available at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, the Tulane Bookstore, and independent bookstores.
A WORKSHOP WITH NICOLE COOLEY
On Sunday afternoon 5 October, Nicole Cooley will offer a workshop. This workshop is by invitation only.
Questions? Contact Charlotte D'Ooge at cdooge@tulane.edu or (504) 314-2721. Or check the Web site: newcomb.tulane.edu/nccrow.
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