U.S.Poet Laureate Louise Glück to read for The Writing Program’s Spring Reading Series April 6 and 8

U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück will present a talk on poetry at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. In addition, Glück will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building.

Both events are free and open to the public and are part of the Spring Reading Series 2004, offered by The Writing Program and the Department of English in Arts and Sciences. A book signing and reception will immediately follow the first event, with copies of Glück’s books available for purchase. Duncker Hall is located at the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Brookings and Hoyt Drives. The Ann W. Olin Women’s building is located on Throop Drive. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Glück, writer-in-residence at Yale University, is the author of eight books of poems, including most recently The Seven Ages published by Ecco Press in 2001. The Triumph of Achilles was awarded the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 1985, and in 1992 she received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris. For her poetic accomplishment, Glück has received a Bollingen Prize for Poetry as well as the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In addition, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations.

Professor of English Carl Phillips says of her poetry, “In the course of her career, Louise Glück has shaped an unmistakable, authentic voice whose questing fuses the lyric and the meditative modes; the poems themselves, meanwhile, argue persuasively for the epic resonances attached to a life of the mind. Glück’s are easily among the most essential poems being written today — original from the start, and built to last.”

Glück was appointed Poet Laureate in 2003. For the week she is on campus, she will serve as visiting Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature.