Poetry. Susan Tichy is a poet embedded: with U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, twined together through history; in the landscape disrupted by war, perseverating on a deer killed by a mountain lion, or hearing direction in birdsong; and in the language of war: "gallowglass" is a corruption of a Gaelic word for "mercenary soldier," and dark, ancient ballads appear like forensic evidence. Surrounded by cultural touchstones from Pythagoras to the Grateful Dead, Tichy refuses to let the reader's gaze, or her own, turn from the violence of modern living.

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Susan Tichy has taught in George Mason University's Graduate Writing Program (MFA Poetry) since 1988, where for five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics. In addition to graduate and undergraduate writing workshops she teaches modern and contemporary poetry, with particular interests in women Modernist and avant-garde poets, poetic form, sequence and collage, "the poem including history," Scottish poetry and the Scottish traditional ballad. Susan Tichy's books are A Smell of Burning Starts the Day (Wesleyan University Press, 1988); The Hands in Exile (Random House, 1983), a National Poetry Series selection; BONE PAGODA (Ahsahta Press, 2007); and GALLOWGLASS (Ahsahta Press, 2010).

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