March 14, 2012, Wednesday - Todd Boss Publication Reading at the Loft

Time  7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Todd Boss reads from his new poetry collection, Pitch, published by W.W. Norton in February.

Todd Boss grew up on an 80 acre cattle farm in west central Wisconsin. He is the author of a previous poetry collection, Yellowrocket (W.W. Norton, 2008). He has an MFA from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and his poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The London Times, and Best American Poetry. In 2009, Virginia Quarterly named Yellowrocket one of the ten best poetry books of the year. The collection was also selected as the Midwest Bookseller Association's Honor Book for Poetry and was nominated for a Minnesota Book Award. Panic, Todd's verse retelling of Knut Hamson's novella Pan, will premiere as an evening-length piece for piano and voice in the fall of 2012, arranged by Boston Conservatory's Andy Vores.

Todd is the founding co-director of Motionpoems, a poetry film initiative now collaborating with Scribner's Best American Poetry. He lives in north suburban Saint Paul with his wife and children.