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Poet Thorpe Moeckel '93 To Give Reading Sept. 18

Story posted September 13, 2008

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Thorpe Moeckel

Poet Thorpe Moeckel, Bowdoin Class of 1993, will read at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 18, 2008, at the Schwartz Outdoor Leadership Center on the Bowdoin College campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Moeckel's visit is sponsored by From the Fishouse, an online audio archive of emerging poets, in conjunction with the Bowdoin Outing Club. Moeckel, a former Bowdoin Outing Club member and an experienced guide, will read his poetry on Thursday and, that weekend, will take a group of students for a writing-related overnight paddling trip.

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Making a Map of the River, the new collection by poet Thorpe Moeckel (Iris Press, 2008).

Thorpe Moeckel's first book of poems, Odd Botany, won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was published in 2002 by Silverfish Review Press. His new collection, Making a Map of the River, was published by Iris Press in spring 2008. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in journals and magazines such as Verse, Orion, Shenandoah, Open City, Rivendell, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Field.

After years guiding trips on rivers and trails in the Appalachians, Moeckel earned an MFA in 2002 at University of Virginia, where he was a Jacob K. Javits and Henry Hoyns Fellow. A former Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC–Chapel Hill, he is now assistant professor at Hollins University. He lives with his wife and daughter in western Virginia.

Odd Botany and Making a Map of the River are available at the Bowdoin College Bookstore, and will be on sale at the event.

Listen to poems by Thorpe Moeckel at From the Fishouse.

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