The Ohio Northern University Department of English and Polaris Literary Magazine hosts an evening Dan Rzicznek, Ohio poet, on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

The event is in the Wilson Art Center Elzay Gallery. A catered reception at 6:30 p.m. and followed by a question-answer session and poetry reading at 7 p.m.

Rzicznek’s collections of poetry are Settlers, (forthcoming from Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press), Divination Machine (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press) and Neck of the World (Utah State University Press), as well as four chapbooks, most recently Live Feeds (Epiphany Editions).

He is also co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry:
Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice (Rose Metal Press).

His poems have appeared in Boston Review, The New Republic, Orion, Kenyon Review, West Branch, and many other venues.

Rzicznek, who teaches writing at Bowling Green State University, will read alongside ONU senior creative writing major Jaiden Deubler.

The event is free and open to the public, and supported with a gift from ONU alums Phil Oleson, and Mary (Monstwil) Oleson.