Perspective: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet pens a letter to a local school board
won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for poetry as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Seuss grew up in Michigan and attended public schools, later studying at Kalamazoo College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree, and Western Michigan University, where she received a master’s degree in social work. She returned to Kalamazoo in 1988 to teach English, which she did until 2016. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Washington University in St.
During the years of my dad’s illness, and after his death, we received vital support from the Brandywine family. And yes, it was a family. I’m sure people had a diversity of political and religious points of view, but those differences were not at the forefront of the conversations and friendships. I cannot imagine how our family would have remained as intact as it was and is without that cohesive network that kept us grounded.
After I graduated from Brandywine, I attended Kalamazoo College, and received my Masters from Western Michigan University. I ended up teaching at both WMU and “K,” and in fact was Writer in Residence at K for 30 years. I have written poems since my first typing class when I was a freshman at BHS. Learning to type came easy, and freed up my imagination, in that I could move ideas from my brain to the page very quickly. I never had my mom in class, but I had her at home.
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