Poet Lee Ann Roripaugh will from her new poetry collection, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. in the Smith Hall/Jack Lounge at Randolph College.Lee Ann Roripaugh’s third volume of poetry, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, was recently released by Southern Illinois University Press. A second volume, Year of the Snake, also published by Southern Illinois University Press, was named winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry/Prose for 2004.
Her first book, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin Books, 1999), was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series. The recipient of a 2003 Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship, she was also named the 2004 winner of the Prairie Schooner Strousse Award, the 2001 winner of the Frederick Manfred Award for Best Creative Writing awarded by the Western Literature Association, and the 1995 winner of the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize.
Roripaugh is currently a Professor of English at the University of South Dakota.
