Monday, October 20 4:00 p.m. M336 Free and open to all Refreshments served

1. “Diane DeCillis is the ‘Belle of the String Theory Ball,’ rooted in Detroit, passionate about her Lebanese grandmother, good food, art, and dreams. These warm philosophical poems explore a cultural and emotional terrain similar to the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. DeCillis ponders Twinkies, absinthe, agoraphobia, the color yellow, insomnia, Cezanne, physics, croissants, and Alfred Hitchcock, all the while unraveling the ball of string that comprises our mortal attachments so she can get to what’s real—the sacred nature of love, life, the universe.” —Richard Peabody, editor of Gargoyle Magazine You’re Invited to a poetry reading by Diane Decillis author of Strings Attached , Wayne State University Press Monday, October 20 4:00 p.m. M336 Free and open to all Refreshments served Sponsored by the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Communication

2. Diane DeCillis’ poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and Best American Poetry. She was awarded the Crucible Poetry Prize and Ocean Prize, and won the MacGuffinNational Poet Hunt. She is the author of a full-length poetry book, Strings Attached Wayne State University Press (2014). Her short stories, essays and poems have appeared in CALYX, Evansville Review, Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, Gastronomica, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, Gargoyle, A Gathering Of Tribes, Rattle, Slipstream, The Southern Indiana Review, The William And Mary Review, and numerous other journals. She is coeditor of Mona Poetica(Mayapple Press), an anthology dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. DeCilliswrites at her desk in West Bloomfield, Michigan. For more information, visit her website: dianedecillis.com or contact Sara Lamers, HSSC faculty: slamers@ltu.edu, x3553