Ted and Annie Deppe 

Theodore Deppe is the author of Orpheus on the Red Line (Tupelo, 2009), as well as three other books of poems.  He has received a Pushcart Prize and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He served as writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the Poet’s House in Donegal, Ireland, and the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.  Ted Deppe also worked as an RN for almost 20 years. He has taught in MFA programs in Ireland, England, and the U.S., and now directs the Stonecoast MFA  in Ireland.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Annie Deppe has dual Irish / U.S. citizenship and lives on the west coast of Ireland. Her two books of poems are Sitting in the Sky (2003) and Wren Cantata (2009), both from Summer Palace Press in Ireland.  She has taught poetry at Eastern Connecticut State University and received grants from the Irish Arts Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.  She is the assistant coordinator of Stonecoast in Ireland.

As Westminster College’s visiting writers for Spring 2012, Ted and Annie Deppe will teach a small poetry class open to both students and members of the community, Mondays, 4:30-7:20 p.m., January 9-April 23. To be considered, please email three poems in one document with contact information (name, phone, email, address) by October 15 to Natasha Sajé, nsaje@westminstercollege.edu  Participants will be notified by December 1.