Goucher College presents “Bumps in the Road,” a performance by writer, singer, and pianist Dan Simpson, on Thursday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Merrick Lecture Hall.
In this 90-minute program, Simpson combines memoir, poetry, and music to examine what it took for him and his identical twin brother, Dave, both of whom are blind, to live artistic lives.
A recipient of a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Simpson has published poems in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Passager, Atlanta Review, The Louisville Review, and Margie, among other literary journals. Cinco Puntos Press published his essay “Line Breaks the Way I See Them,” and four of his poems appear in Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, a 2012 American Library Association Notable Poetry Book that also was called “unusual and powerful” by Publisher’s Weekly in a starred review.
Simpson has been invited to read his poetry at the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia’s First-Person Festival, and at the Cornelia Street Café in New York City. He has appeared at World Café Live in Philadelphia and was featured on WHYY-FM’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane. He and Ona Gritz are the poetry editors for Referential Magazine. His blog, Inside the Invisible, can be found at www.insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com.
Funding for his appearance is provided by the Isabelle Kellogg Thomas Lectureship in English, and admission to the performance is free. For more information, contact Mary Reisinger at mary.reisinger@goucher.edu.