Paula Closson Buck

4 Bucknell Hall
(570) 577-1848
paula.closson.buck@bucknell.edu

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Paula Closson Buck (Ph.D. Ohio University) is Professor of English. Her interests include creative writing and modern British and American literature.

Teaching Interests

Creative writing, poetry and fiction; contemporary poetry; twentieth-century literature.

Current Projects and Research Interests

Prof. Closson Buck is finishing up a novel called Drinking with Ptolemy and looking ahead to work on new poems, a second novel, and possibly some essays drawing on recent travels to India.

Selected Publications

The Acquiescent Villa, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (1998)

Litanies Near Water, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (2008)

Individual poems have appeared in Agni, Agni Online, Gettysburg Review, Laurel Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and other magazines, and have been selected for Poetry Daily.