Second Thursday OPEN Mic Poetry featuring Susan Signe Morrison

Thursday, February 11th, 7:15pm

Second Thursday OPEN Mic... on Zoom

Featuring Susan Signe Morrison

Hosted by Cindy Huyser

Let's stay at home and still enjoy poetry! The e-mail address to receive Zoom contact info is: bookwoman2ndthursdaypoetry@gmail.com  A round robin style Open Mic follows the feature. Bring poems to share!

Please join us on Thursday, February 11 from 7:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for what is sure to be a terrific evening with our feature, Austin's Susan Signe Morrison.

Susan Signe Morrison is the editor of a newly-released chapbook, Another Troy, containing poetry written by her mother, Joan Wehlen Morrison. Committed to bringing the lives of women hidden in the shades of history to a wider audience, she has also edited the wartime journals of Wehlen Morrison, which have been published as Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America. 

A Professor of English at Texas State University, Morrison is the author of four books on the Middle Ages, as well as a novel, Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife, which retells the story of the Old English epic Beowulf from the perspective of the female characters. A broader audience has accessed Susan’s work through interviews with Wired, American Public Media, the History Channel, and The New Yorker.