The Center is pleased to present four poets reading from and discussing their work in a presentation entitled History as an Act of Imagination: Women Poets and Revision. Diane Gilliam Fisher writes in the voices of people living and working in West Virginia during the coal mine wars of 1920-1921 in her book Kettle Bottom (Perugia Press, 2004); Gail Thomas writes about the
drowning of four towns in Massachusetts, in the 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir, the water source for Boston, in her book No Simple Wilderness (Haley's, 2001); Annie Boutelle explores the interior life of Celia Thaxter, one of America's most popular 19th-century women poets, in her forthcoming book, Becoming Bone (University of Arkansas Press, fall 2005); and Holly Iglesias writes postcard-size prose poems from people who attended the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, in her manuscript, Now You See It.
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