UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Noted poet Adrienne Su will offer a reading as part of this year’s Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 20, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Su has written five poem collections, including her most recent, “Peach State” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which was named a 2022 Book All Georgians Should Read. Her first book of prose, the essay collection “Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet” (Paul Dry Books, 2024), focuses on poetry and food.
Su’s poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including six volumes of The Best American Poetry, as well as Prairie Schooner, The Common, The New Yorker, and other noteworthy journals. Notable accolades include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Frost Place, and Vermont Studio Center.
Originally from Atlanta, Su currently lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and works as a professor of creative writing at Dickinson College.
The Mary E. Rolling Reading Series is a program offered by Penn State’s Creative Writing Program in English. The series receives support from the College of the Liberal Arts; the Department of English; the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment; the Mary E. Rolling Lectureship in Creative Writing; and University Libraries. A full list of readings in the 2024-25 series can be found at creativewriting.psu.edu.