Date/Time
Date(s) - April 16, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Lory Student Center, University Ballroom
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents a special evening with the Center for Literary Publishing featuring Asha Futterman and Susan McCabe
LSC University Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16, 2026
Asha Futterman is a poet and actor from Chicago. Her chapbook empathy was published by The Song Cave in 2024. Her poems appear in Poetry, Bennington Review, and Conduit. She holds an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and teaches at an elementary school in Brooklyn.
Susan McCabe was born on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has taught in Oregon and Arizona, and in her mother’s country of Sweden. She received her PhD at UCLA, and is professor of creative writing and poetry at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, Cinematic Modernism, and a bi-biography, An Untold Love Story: H.D. & Bryher (Oxford 2021). She has published three poetry volumes, Swirl (Red Hen Press), Descartes’ Nightmare (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali prize, Utah University Press), and most recently, I Woke A Lake (2025), in the Mountain West Poetry series, published by The Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) at Colorado State University (CSU). She is currently working on Sister, My Sweet Fleet Sister, a memoir in verse.
The CSU Creative Writing Reading Series is made possible by the Organization of Graduate Student Writers, the CSU Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, CSU Libraries, the Mary Crow and Deanna Ludwin Reading Series Endowment, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, the donor sponsor of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series, and other generous support.