Susan Firer

Here’s a great opportunity to listen to “brainy, jazzy, accessible” poetry and meet the poet who wrote it.

POETRY READING SCHEDULED

 Award winning Wisconsin Poet KARLA HUSTON will read from her newest books, A Theory of Lipstick and Outside of a Dog, on Wednesday November 20 at 7:30 in the North Reading Room of Lane Library at Ripon College.   The reading, which is free and open to all, will be followed by a chance to meet the poet and a book signing.

Winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest, Karla Huston earned her MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  She is the author of seven chapbooks of poetry, most recently Outside of a Dog (dancing girl press & studio: 2013).  Main Street Rag published her full collection of poems A Theory of Lipstick also in 2013.

Huston has published poetry, reviews and interviews in many state and national journals. Her poem “Theory of Lipstick” was awarded a Pushcart Prize<http://www.pushcartprize.com/> and appeared in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (2012).
A retired teacher of high school English, Huston now teaches poetry writing workshops at The Mill: A Place for Writers, in Appleton, WI, and frequently gives readings around the state. 

Poet Phil Dacey writes about Huston’s work that it “is both brainy and sensuous, and the whole is underwritten by a musical ear attuned to the American idiom at its jazziest.”  Katie Giorgio notes that “the most wonderful thing about Karla Huston’s poetry is accessibility.  The reader doesn’t have to be a poet, an academic or an intellectual to be able to appreciate it.”  Susan Firer calls Huston’s poems “generous with the pleasures of poetry.”