Poet Alice Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. Her most recent collection is titled "Barely Composed." Roger Gilbert is a professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of "Walks in the World: Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry," and is currently working on a biography of A. R. Ammons.
In A Word is a new series that showcases the Cornell University Creative Writing Program's dedicated and diverse poets and fiction writing faculty. Held once a semester, each event features a different writer presenting on some of the authors, works, and literary motifs that interest them.