
Kathleen Maris Paltrineri Poetry Reading
Paltrineri, Distinguished Visiting Writer for Fall 2018 at the Center for the Literary Arts, reads from her new poetry manuscript, A Psalm for Our Bodies, at the Van Etten-Lacey House. Paltrineri is teaching the course Sound Writing at the Intersection of Literature and Social Justice at Cornell, during which her students will study the burgeoning podcast medium.
Until recently she was coordinator of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa and created its podcast, “Origins,” to feature interviews with writers from around the world addressing the origins of their creative works, the literary and social cultures in which they write, and the art of language. A recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire, Paltrineri’s poetry has appeared in Alice Blue Review, Atlas Review, decomP, Painted Bride Quarterly, Powder Keg, and other venues, including two anthologies