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Adrie Kusserow

ADRIE KUSSEROW is a cultural anthropologist and poet. She is Professor of Anthropology at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, where she lives. She has two books of poetry (Hunting Down the Monk and REFUGE) published by Boa Editions, Ltd as part of their American Poets Continuum Series and a third forthcoming. Much of Kusserow’s poetry is ethnographic, based on her field work in East Africa, India, Nepal and Bhutan. She has taught poetry for the American Anthropological Association (Society for Anthropology and Humanism), the New England Young Writers Conference and the Iowa University International Writer’s Program American Writers On Tour in South Sudan, sponsored by the US Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. She has given poetry readings at the PEN New England “Freedom to Write” Writing and Trauma Conference, the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and its Social Consequences, the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the International Consortium for Social Development in Kampala Uganda, The Loden Foundation in Thimphu, Bhutan and The Democracy Center at Harvard University.

 

Poems by Adrie Kusserow

Hush, Humans

After His Death, The Dalai Lama Looks Down on a Yoga Class

After His Death, The Dalai Lama Down on Humans in the Modern West

After I Show My Students a Documentary on Yezidi Women, I Go Back to My Office and Confess

Holding Chemo

 
 
 
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