February 25, 2012
Filed under Campus News
Filed under Campus News
The Orangery was packed from window to window as the crowd waited to hear the poetry of Ethel Rackin and James Richardson. Over 100 people filled the Newtown campus room for one of the most attended events in this year’s Wordsmith’s series.
Ethel Rackin, an Assistant Professor of Language and Literature at Bucks, was the first poet to present her work in front of the audience during the event on Friday, Feb. 17. She earned a Masters in Fine Arts from Bard College and her PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. She began writing in 7th grade and started writing poetry consistently at that time. She found the inspiration to start writing when her best friend ran away from home as a child.
“I write when I try to make sense of things,” she said. “It’s a way to work through difficulties in life.”
Her book of poetry consists of notes, pictures and songs. Rackin started out reading poems that had a theme of nature running throughout them, a major inspiration for her.
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