The Office of Multicultural Affairs at CCBC Catonsville is hosting a Women's History Month event - "Creating Self: The struggle to find the American Woman" - by Colleen Webster. This program will look at the media's attempt to build women out of nails, hair, shoes and make-up, while the world needs a true fleshbone and spirit woman to truly participate in this world.
The event will be held 1-3 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2012, in The Barn (B Building) at CCBC Catonsville. It is free and open to the public.
Poet and educator Colleen Webster lives at the juncture of the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay where she runs, bikes, kayaks, paddleboards and walks with her dogs. When she comes inside she works as a Professor of English at Harford Community College, waiting for her next outdoor foray.
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Her poetry, essays and book reviews have been or will be published by The Maryland Poetry Review, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Tacenda, Milkweed Editions, Poetry Midwest, Isotope, Penumbra, and the Disquieting Muses Quarterly Review. She serves as a Speaker for the Maryland Humanities Council, through which she offers her one woman show on Frida Kahlo; in addition she performs as Georgia O’Keeffe and Emily Dickinson. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry in 2002 and 2004, and awarded the O’Henry Prize for Literary Excellence in Harford County in 2004.