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Creative Literacy Alliance Director

Terry Hermsen looks on as a Genoa student reads her poem at the CLA Celebration

Terry Hermsen looks on as a Genoa student reads her poem at the CLA Celebration.

Dr. Terry Hermsen
, Assistant Professor of English

A long-time writer-in-the-schools with the Ohio Arts Council, Terry Hermsen has visited numerous schools around the state teaching poetry. He holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Goddard College and a Ph.D. in Art Education from The Ohio State University, where he studied the connections between visual and verbal learning. He has published two chapbooks of his own poetry, 36 Spokes: The Bicycle Poems and Child Aloft in Ohio Theater. He also co-edited two anthologies: Teaching Writing from a Writer's Point of View (from National Council of Teachers of English) and O' Taste and See: Food Poems.

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