Resident Profile: Diana Goetsch by Vermont Studio Center

Diana Goetsch speaks in an interview about her current work and practice while at Vermont Studio Center, followed by her reading four poems as part of the Resident Reading night on September 6, 2015. The discussion/introduction was held with Laurie Macfee, Writing Coordinator at VSC, in the Mason House Library a couple days after the evening reading in the Lowe Lecture Hall in Johnson, VT.

Diana Goetsch (formerly Douglas Goetsch) is the author of Nameless Boy, The Job of Being Everybody and several other volumes of poems. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize and numerous other journals and anthologies. Among her honors are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Donald Murray Prize.

Diana is an experienced and innovative writing teacher who has taught at colleges, conferences and MFA programs, in addition to teaching privately—one-on-one, and group workshops in her New York City apartment. She is also the editor of Jane Street Press, a unique, zero-profit poetry press she founded in 2001.

Please visit her website for further information: http://dianagoetsch.com/

Photograph by Laurie Macfee 2015, VSC