Colburn describes her artistic process as stemming from a deep personal reflection. “I write very traditionally lyric poetry, where my poetry comes from a conversation with myself.

After an 18 month process, the Colburn School has launched the digital collection of the Herbert and Trudl Zipper Archives, available at zipperarchives.org.

Colburn discovered her love for poetry early on in her education at the College. “I took a Whitman seminar with Helen Vendler when I was an undergraduate,” she said. “That course totally shifted me to ...