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Tod Marshall, associate professor of English at Gonzaga University, is touring the West Coast and the Midwest, reading poetry from his latest collection of poems titled, “The Tangled Line,” which was published in April by Canarium Books and is available online at Amazon.com and at the Zag Shop.

Destinations for Marshall this last month included Eastern Washington University, the University of Iowa in Iowa City, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Siena Heights University in Adrian, Mich.

The remaining tour destinations are as follows:

2009
Nov. 8 -- Open Books Bookstore, Seattle
Nov. 16 -- Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Ore.

2010
Jan. 27 -- University of Oklahoma, Mark Everett Poetry Series, Norman, Okla.
March 29 -- Waldorf College, Forrest Grove, Iowa
March 31 -- Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
April 13 -- Gonzaga University, Spokane
Spring 2010 -- Lit Fest, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Wash.
Spring 2010 -- Washington State University, Pullman (date TBA)
Spring 2010 -- Portland State University (date TBA)

* Other dates may be added

Marshall’s writings deal with myth, history, landscape, pop culture, aesthetics, struggle and acceptance and the circumstances of family conflict. American poet and New York University professor Yusef Komunyakaa said, “These words shot me through the heart. What witty, controlled moments of serious, needful signification. These poems speak for themselves. I truly love this book.”
Marshall’s first collection, “Dare Say,” was the winner of the University of Georgia’s Contemporary Poetry Series in 2002. He also received a Grants for Artist Projects award and an Artist Trust Fellowship award from the Washington Artist Trust. Other works include “Range of the Possible,” a collection of interviews with poets, and an edited anthology of the interviewed poets’ work, “Range of Voices.”

For more information, contact Tod Marshall at (509) 313-6681 or  via e-mail.