U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück will present a talk on poetry at 8 p.m. April 6 and will read from her work at 8 p.m. April 8 as part of the Spring Reading Series 2004, offered by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences.
Both events are free and open to the public and will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201.
Glück, writer-in-residence at Yale University, is the author of eight books of poems, including most recently The Seven Ages in 2001. She was awarded the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 1985 for The Triumph of Achilles, and in 1992 she received a 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.
“In the course of her career, Louise Glück has shaped an unmistakable, authentic voice whose questing fuses the lyric and the meditative modes,” said Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences. “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 at the University, she serves as the Fannie Hurst Professor of Creative Literature.
A book-signing and reception will immediately follow the first event, with copies of Glück’s books available for purchase. For more information, call 935-7130.