Ed Roberson Reading
PSU - Smith Memorial Student Union 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United StatesMonday, Mar 6 6pm Smith 338 The PSU Program in Creative Writing is pleased to host the poet Ed Roberson. This event is cosponsored by the Black Studies Department. The in-person reading is free and open to the public; it will be livestreamed via the program's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PSUCreativeWriting Ed Roberson is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021) and Asked What Has Changed (Wesleyan University Press, 2021). His most recent collection, Aquarium Works (Nion Editions, 2022), details his experiences as a diver and tankman at the Pittsburgh AquaZoo in the 1960s. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Roberson also worked in the area’s steel mills, in an advertising graphics agency, and as a research assistant in…