Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, “Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields” Artist’s Talk/Poetry Reading and Reception
- Date: February 7th, 2019
- Location: Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts, High Foundation Recital Hall
- Time: 4:15pm - 6:00pm
- Cost: Free and open to the public
Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, “Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields” Artist’s Talk/Poetry Reading and Reception
Julia Spicher Kasdorf is author of three books in the Pitt Poetry Series, most recently Poetry in America. Her poems were awarded a 2009 NEA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize and appear in numerous anthologies. She thinks about the relationships writers have with the communities and places they come from and also those places they choose to live. Past projects include a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, winner of the 2002 Book of the Year Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature, and a biography, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American. She worked on a new edition of Yoder’s 1940 local color classic Rosanna of the Amish and Fred Lewis Pattee’s The House of the Black Ring. She is a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State, where she teaches creative writing.
Steven Rubin is a documentary photographer whose work addresses critical contemporary issues including rural poverty, refugee migration, immigrant detention, and the social and environmental impacts of energy development. He photographs for national and international media, non-profits, and human rights organizations, and has been widely published and exhibited across the United States and in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, he was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, and an Open Society Institute Media Fellow. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches photography.
