Poet Visit :::
Prize-winning poet reads, runs workshop at LTHS
Poet Marianne Boruch worked with students at Lyons Township High School, including junior D.
Rus and senior J. Bravo, on the creative writing process.
In honor of National Poetry Month, Lyons Township High School recently welcomed guest poet
Marianne Boruch for a reading of her work. Boruch is a poet and educator. She has taught at Purdue
University, developing and directing the Masters of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Program since its beginning
in 1987 until 2005. Her work includes six collections of poetry and two books of essays on poetry.
Her poems and essays have been published in such places as The New Yorker and Poetry, and have been
anthologized in The Best American Poetry, 2009 and 1997; Poetry 180, and elsewhere. Her awards
include two Pushcart Prizes, the Terrence DePres Award from Parnassus, two fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and residencies at the
MacDowell Colony, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Ragdale, The American Academy in
Rome, and The Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN.