Sally Keith
Poetry Reading: Saturday, October 24
4 p.m. Bucknell Hall
Homecoming Alumni Poetry & Fiction Readings

Sally Keith's first book, Design, won the 2000 Colorado Prize, judged by Allen Grossman.  Her second book, Dwelling Song, was chosen by Bin Ramke and Fanny Howe for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series. 

A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Keith has published her poems in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Vold, A Public Space, and Forklift, Ohio. She has received fellowships from The Breadloaf Writers' conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Dora Maar House.  She was the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College in 2002-3, and currently is a faculty member of George Mason University's MFA program in poetry.

Keith graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2000 and holds a B.A. from Bucknell University. She grew up in Fairfax, Virginia.

Self-Portrait After the Snow excerpt from Dwelling Song

And then the ground got soaked.  Something
said: a skeleton in midnight, it will
sing.  Blue was

blue are, blue: show me the
world's new crèche.  The blown.  We are
coming.  We have come to

winter for.  We then left.  And then and then
Queen Anne's lace it left:
gone. Went to the wire of the

lady of my latter life, her
rolling hair, her pink and porcelain
face, the pinafore

stitch, the petticoat, the bowling out from her
little liney waist.  So why
won't I soak?