Robin Becker’s many collections of poetry include Personal Effects (1977); Backtalk (1982); Giacometti’s Dog (1990); All-American Girl (1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award; The Horse Fair (2000); Domain of Perfect Affection (2006); and Tiger Heron (2014). She has won fellowships from the Bunting Institute, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000 she was honored with Penn State's George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, and she served as Penn State Laureate in 2010-11. She is a contributing editor to Ploughshares and poetry editor for the Women’s Review of Books, where she writes a column called “Field Notes.” In addition to her position as Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State University, Becker also teaches workshops at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown.
To read a sample of Robin Becker's work follow this link: poem samples. Books and broadsides will be for sale at the event.
This event is sponsored by the TTU English Department and Creative Writing Program and the TTU Women's Studies Program.
