Poetry at Noon: Susan Bullock

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DATE : Fri, 15 May 2009 17:33:31 -0400
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Susan Bullock reads from her poetry, which explores faith, hope, love, despair, and the lifeline of language, plunging into the depths of being and the complexities of life. Susan Bullock was born in Somerville, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College. In 1981 she went to Europe on a Thomas Watson Fellowship, and then returned to the United States where she studied with Joseph Brodsky. Her poems have appeared in Persephone, Harvard Review, Princeton Theological Review, English, Ars Interpres, Stand, and Literary Imagination. She received fellowships from the Thomas Watson Foundation and Four Oaks Foundation. An avid world traveler, Susan's poetry reflected her immersion in the places she visited. She is the author of "Selected Poems," an anthology of her work. Susan was director of community relations and internal communications at Pioneer Investments in Boston. She served on the board of directors of the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation; the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics; On the Rise, a women's shelter in Cambridge; and New England Home for Little Wanderers. Her biggest fundraising effort through Pioneer Investments was for the Roberto Bazzoni Onlus, a charity supporting the Luisa Guidotti Hospital in Mutoko, Zimbabwe. To our great sadness, she died unexpectedly at home in Boston's Back Bay, on February 20, 2009. She is survived by her mother, Joan Bullock of Camden; her father, Rodway Bullock of Elizabeth, N.J.; her brothers, Stephen Bullock and his wife, Deborah, of New Bedford, Mass., and Christopher Bullock and his wife, Mary, of Huntington, Conn.; her nieces, Ashley and Alysha Bullock of Huntington, Conn.; and her cherished companions, Pushkin and Luba.

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