Award winning poet, writer and memoirist Meghan O\u2019Rourke will be the keynote speaker at the English Association of Pennsylvania State University (EAPSU) conference, which will take place on October 12, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. in the Keystone Room at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania (ESU). O\u2019Rourke will be reading from her work\u2014her memoir and poetry. She will also be speaking about her experience writing for Slate.com., a major online magazine. The event is open to all members of the campus community and the general public at no cost.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Rourke is the culture editor and literary critic for Slate.com. Her writing has covered topics ranging from grief and popular culture to the works of major literary figures. She is the author of two books of poetry Once<\/em> and Half life<\/em> and a best-selling memoir, The Long Goodbye.<\/em><\/p>\n According to her website (www.meghanorourke.net<\/a>), O\u2019Rourke began her career as one of the youngest editors in the history of\u00a0 The New Yorker<\/em>. Since then, she has served as culture editor and literary critic for Slate<\/em> as well as poetry editor and advisory editor for The Paris Review<\/em>. Her essays, criticism, and poems have appeared in Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Redbook, Vogue, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry.<\/em> A graduate of Yale University, she has taught at Princeton, The New School, and New York University.<\/p>\n \u201cThis reading is a unique opportunity to hear Meghan O\u2019Rourke read from her work, including her bestselling, deeply moving memoir, The Long Goodbye,<\/em> about her mother\u2019s death after a long battle with cancer,\u201d said Jan Selving, ESU assistant professor of English. \u201cAs a cultural columnist and critic for Slate.com, she reaches millions of readers, and offers a unique insight on the power of the web to direct the current conversation about literature, culture, and social norms.\u201d<\/p>\n Author Joyce Carol Oates said of\u00a0 The Long Goodbye, \u201cMeghan O\u2019Rourke has written a beautiful memoir about her loss of a truly irreplaceable mother\u2014yes, it is sad, it is in fact heartrending, but it is many things more: courageous, inspiring, wonderfully intelligent and informed, and an intimate portrait of an American family as well.\u201d<\/p>\n O\u2019Rourke\u2019s visit to ESU is sponsored by EAPSU and ESU\u2019s Office of Academic Affairs, with additional support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the English department.\u00a0 For more information about the visit by O\u2019Rourke to the ESU campus, contact Selving at 570-422-3071, or at jselving@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Award winning poet, memoirist Meghan O\u2019Rourke to speak about experiences as a Professional Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}