Published April 20, 2010<\/SPAN> The Mid-Columbia Literary Festival puts another Northwest writer in the spotlight tonight when poet Tod Marshall appears at Columbia Basin College.<\/P> The Gonzaga University professor’s reading is set for 7 p.m. at the HUB Main Stage.<\/P> His first collection of poetry, Dare Say<\/EM>, was the 2002 winner of the University of Georgia’s Contemporary Poetry Series. His second collection, The Tangled Line<\/EM>, was published in 2009.<\/P> Marshall’s collection of interviews with contemporary poets, Range of the Possible<\/EM>, makes him both fan and artist.<\/P> “Each conversation — from learned discussions with such intense poet-scholars as Robert Hass and Edward Hirsch to the mystical perceptions of Li-Young Lee to Linda Bierds’ interest in writing about lives other than her own to Yusef Komunyakaa’s connection to place — deepens the reader’s appreciation for all the knowledge, emotion and conviction that make poetry the wonder, pleasure and solace it is,” wrote Donna Seaman in Booklist.<\/P> As poet and teacher, Marshall should satisfy poetry lovers and those looking for an introduction to contemporary poetry.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Published April 20, 2010By the Tri-City Herald Editorial BoardThe Mid-Columbia Literary Festival puts another Northwest writer in the spotlight tonight when poet Tod Marshall appears at Columbia Basin College.The Gonzaga University professor’s reading is set for 7 p.m. at the HUB Main Stage.His first collection of poetry, Dare Say, was the 2002 winner of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
By the Tri-City Herald Editorial Board<\/P>