A Reading with Poet Laureate Suzanne Underwood Rhodes

Giving Words Wings

Join Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, the Poet Laureate of Arkansas, for a poetry reading on the Gathering Glade.

Suzanne Underwood Rhodes will be sharing poems from Flying Yellow, her latest full-length collection, and new poems from her chapbook-in-progress. Equal to if not greater than the power of imagery and figures of speech, she prizes the musical qualities of language, and tunes her words for rhythm and sound associations, knowing that these embody meanings.  She writes with an eye to something else, as Aristotle said, something transcendent, and hopes her poems will touch the hearts and minds of those who honor her by listening to her words. 

About Suzanne Underwood Rhodes: 

Suzanne Underwood Rhodes is the poet laureate of Arkansas, appointed in January 2022 by the governor for a four-year term. She’s the author of Flying Yellow: New and Selected Poems, named a semi-finalist in the 2022 North American Book Award of the Poetry Society of Virginia. Other books are What a Light Thing, This Stone; two chapbooks, Hungry Foxes and Weather of the House, and two books of lyrical prose, A Welcome Shore and Sketches of Home. Her poems have appeared in many journals, books, and anthologies, with recent work in Mid/South Anthology, Slant, Green Mountains Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Medicine and Meaning, and Christian Century. She has a new chapbook completed and is working on a third full-length poetry collection. Awards include nominations for the Pushcart prize, first place in the Dr. Lily Peter Memorial Award, first place in the Richard Lewis Haiku contest, first place in the Virginia Highlands Creative Writing Contest, and others. A retired college instructor, she lives in Fayetteville and teaches virtual poetry workshops through the Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

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