Kathleen Youngs and Kristie McNamara in the new prayer and meditation lounge.
![Worcester State University Professor of English Heather Treseler, a woman with chin-length brown hair and wearing a blue dress, stands in the stacks of the library, holding a book](https://s41430.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Heather-Treseler-400x290.jpg)
Poet and professor’s essay on finding inspiration from other poets recognized
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Worcester State English Professor Heather Treseler was, she says, “stuck at home thinking of places I had been recently.” Her thoughts went to her pilgrimage . . .