SSU Writers Series: J.D. Scrimgeour and Rebecca Olander

Salem State Professor J.D. Scrimgeour is the inaugural poet laureate of Salem, Massachusetts.A longtime resident of Salem, Scrimgeour has written in many genres about the city.His forthcoming multi-genre collection, Poet in High Street Park: Prose & Poetry for Modern Salem (Loom Press), is a love song to the city by a writer who has grounded himself in the everyday realities of living in it for the past 30 years.Finding the universal in the local, the book asks who we are and who we want to be.