Accomplished poet Danielle Rye will offer a reading and Q&A on Thursday, March 19 from 4:00-5:30pm in the Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Danielle Ryle was fostered in floodplain and found refuge in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, writing poetry as survival. Her work has appeared in Seneca Review, Appalachian Review, and Cordella among others, as well as her chapbook Fetching My Sister. Her new book of poems Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her (Lit Fox Books, 2025) measures the distance between a poetic form and a form to fill out.

In praise of her book, Ross Gay said, “There is so much to admire about Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her: the invented form, which is both birdsong and trauma; the balance of irony and intimacy; the images, some of which are so precise and strange I think I will never forget them; the brilliant, stop-you-in-your-tracks lines, not infrequent, like this: ‘Whether you're living or not often comes down to figurative language.’”

More events hosted by the Penn State Creative Writing Program in English can be found at creativewriting.psu.edu.