Nationally acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido will present a talk on the craft of poetry at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, for Washington University’s Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.
The event, sponsored as part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series, is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, Room 201, Duncker Hall.
Duncker Hall is located at the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle. A reception and book signing will immediately follow. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.
Brock-Broido is the author of three books of poetry: Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995) and A Hunger (1988). Her work often explores obsessions and anxieties — of influence, ritual, mortality and modernity — using shifting syntax and diction to create vivid, sometimes disorienting, portraits of the mind.
In an interview with Carol Maso for BOMB magazine, Brock-Broido explained that her “theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds.”
Brock-Broido is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as awards from the American Poetry Review and the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Additional honors include the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award and the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching.
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Brock-Broido earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University. She has taught at Columbia as well as at Bennington, Princeton and Harvard Universities, where she was a Briggs-Copeland poet.
She is director of poetry in the Writing Division in Columbia’s School of the Arts. She divides her time between New York City and Cambridge, Mass.