Kenyon students Justine Lacey and Stephanie Newman talk to award-winning poet Dana Roeser.

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Dana Roeser’s first book of poems, Beautiful Motion (Northeastern University Press, 2004), was the winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize. In 2005, she won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the 2005-2006 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellowship.

Ms. Roeser’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Iowa Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, The Antioch Review, Indiana Review, Notre Dame Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Passages North, Sou’wester, The Laurel Review, Pool, Shade, The Literary Review, and other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily.

She won the 2003 descant Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award and second place in the 2003 Indiana Review Poetry Prize competition. She has been a fellow at the Ragdale Foundation, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Le Moulin à Nef (administered by the VCCA) in Auvillar, France.

In addition to her reading at Sweet Briar College, Ms. Roeser has read, or is scheduled to read, her work in 2005-2006 at Butler University, Marshall University, the Virginia Festival of the Book, Le Moulin à Nef, Chapters Literary Bookstore (Washington, DC), George Washington University, the Indiana Poetry Festival, and the twelve colleges of the Great Lakes Colleges Association. Before her appointment as the Jenny McKean Moore Writer in Washington at George Washington University, Ms. Roeser was Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Butler University in Indianapolis.

RESOURCES

• Read works by poet Robert Frost at Bartelby.
  
• The George Washington University
  
• The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize