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Roseanna Alice Boswell
August 29, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Stillwater based poet Roseanna Alice Boswell for a free, in-store event celebrating the release of her new collection of poetry, In the House | In the Woods on Thursday August 29 at 7:00pm.
In the House | In the Woods chronicles grief through forests, down highways, and across state lines, as the speaker remembers and re-constructs her own origin.
In the House | In the Woods will be published by Cooper Dillon Books in August and will be for sale at Magic City Books. Roseanna will read from the collection, discuss her work and will be available to sign copies of her book.
About In the House | In the Woods
In the House| In the Woods chronicles grief through forests, down highways, and across state lines, as the speaker remembers and re-constructs their own origin. Core to the poems is a longing for closeness: to the sister who died, and to the siblings who remain. “I will beat the dark this time,” claims the poet, “but still watch for deer / along the side of the road.” Even in hope there is a certain wariness, something lurking among the trees. In the House| In the Woods leads the way back up the horse path toward home, following the last bit of sun.
The dreamlike world of these poems is arid and ethereal as the Oklahoma landscape, with language lush as skin and visceral as teeth. —Erin Slaughter, author of A Manual for How to Love Us & The Sorrow Festival
Roseanna Alice Boswell is a queer poet and educator from Upstate New York. She earned her MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and is currently working toward her Ph.D. in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. Her debut poetry collection, Hiding in a Thimble, was released with Haverthorn Press in 2021, and she was the winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2021 Chapbook Competition for her manuscript Imitating Light. Roseanna’s research interests include feminist theory, fat studies, and how these two fields speak to femininity and domesticity. She lives, writes, and teaches in Stillwater, OK, with her husband and their cats.