Poetry reading will be in Norman
NORMAN — Rose State College creative writing professor Theresa “Trixie” Walther will be the featured reader at the free Second Sunday Poetry Reading at 2 p.m. Sunday at The Depot, 200 S Jones Ave. Refreshments will be served.
Walther’s poetic voice is rooted in her hometown of Kilbride, Newfoundland, her deep Irish heritage, and her travels abroad.
She was inspired by a fourth-grade English teacher to write her first short story and was “hooked” on words and images from that point on.
She has poems published in the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine literary journal Blood and Thunder and in the Sugar Mule writing anthology “Ain’t Nobody Can Sing like Me.” Her chapbook of selected poetry is titled “Heart’s Content.”
Walther has taught fulltime at Rose State College since 2004. She also works to coordinate the college’s annual Poetry at Rose event. She is a member of the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges, the National Council for Teachers of English, the National Writing Project and the Oklahoma Association for Developmental Education.
Walther recently was one of five professors to be named a 2015 DaVinci Fellow by the DaVinci Institute of Oklahoma. The award recognizes creativity, broadly defined, among Oklahoma higher education faculty who have made a significant contribution to the profession.
Carl Sennhenn, past Oklahoma poet laureate and longtime host of Second Sunday Poetry, said, “Walther’s poems are powerful, open and honest and are capable of taking one’s breath away at times.”