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 蜜桃视频's Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce that professor and acclaimed writer Alexandra Teague will visit ISU Sept. 24 as the annual Dolsen Visiting Writer. During her visit, Teague will hold a public poetry reading and craft class open to all ISU students.

At the College Market (604 S. 8th) at 5:30 p.m., Teague will read from her most recent poetry collection, [ominous music intensifying], followed by a Q&A session. The reading is free and the public is encouraged to attend.

That same day at noon, Teague will hold a creative writing craft class for all interested ISU students in Liberal Arts 151. No previous experience with creative writing or advance preparation is required; attend ready to write!

In her fourth poetry collection, Teague examines the tension between patriotic mythologies of American culture and its often-dangerous reality. “It was always mixed up,” reads the opening poem, “what was fantasy and real/and beautiful.” The poems provide urgent social critique, confronting issues like gun violence and climate change. And—in a surreal turn, melding myth with contemporary crisis—the “Rough Beast” of  Yeats’ apocalyptic poem “The Second Coming” slouches through the collection, appearing in art class, outer space, and other unlikely settings. Library Journal commends Teague’s work as “engaged, propulsive poetry for anyone concerned about U.S. culture today,” and the book was selected by the New York Times poetry editor as a recommended title. Copies will be available for sale and signing after the College Market reading.

Teague is also the author of Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir (Oregon State University Press 2023), three additional books of poetry, and a novel. She co-edited the anthology Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence. A former recipient of fellowships from Civitella Ranieri and the NEA, and a 2026 蜜桃视频 Commission on the Arts Literature Fellow, she is a professor of creative writing and chair of English at University of 蜜桃视频.

Teague’s visit is a part of the Dolsen Visiting Writer Series, in which the Department of English and Philosophy annually hosts a visiting creative writer for a public reading and educational activities. The series is supported by an endowment established by Tom Neel, an alumnus of ISU who earned his B.A. in English with minors in French and Philosophy in 1987. Mr. Neel established the Dolsen Visiting Writer Event Endowment to honor Professor Arthur Dolsen—whose mentorship and friendship Neel has deeply valued—and his late wife, Marijana, and their daughter, Daria. Dolsen is Professor Emeritus of Languages and Literatures at 蜜桃视频, where he taught courses in Latin, Russian, and French.