Writers and Scholars Series

Boland is an Irish poet, author, professor, and activist. She is hailed as one of the foremost voices in Irish Feminist Literature. She’s won a Jacob's Award, Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and many more. In 2016 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work focuses on the importance of the everyday in order to catalogue the true experience of Irish women. She is known for subverting traditional depictions of womanhood, Irish history, and mythology despite the fact she “began to write in an Ireland where the word ‘woman’ and the word ‘poet’ seemed to be in some sort of magnetic opposition to each other.”

Writers & Scholars event featuring Kamilah Aisha Moon reading from her book of poems "Starshine & Clay".

poetry, chelsea rathburn, agnes scott college