UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Accomplished poet Danielle Rye will offer a reading and Q&A session at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 19, in 102 Burrowes Building (the Grucci Room) on the Penn State University Park campus.
Rye's work has appeared in Seneca Review, Appalachian Review, and Cordella among others, as well as her chapbook "Fetching My Sister." Her new book of poems, “Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her” (Lit Fox Books, 2025), measures the distance between a poetic form and a form to fill out.
In praise of Rye’s book Ross Gay said, “There is so much to admire about “Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her”: the invented form, which is both birdsong and trauma; the balance of irony and intimacy; the images, some of which are so precise and strange I think I will never forget them; the brilliant, stop-you-in-your-tracks lines, not infrequent, like this: ‘Whether you're living or not often comes down to figurative language.’”
Rye’s visit is hosted by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. Visit creativewriting.psu.edu to learn more about this and other events hosted by the program.