Poet Lucie Brock-Broido to read from her work Feb. 9

Acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, for The Writing Program Reading Series at Washington University.

The reading, sponsored by The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, Room 207, Duncker Hall. Duncker Hall is located in the northwest corner of Brookings Quadrangle, near the intersection of Hoyt and Brookings drives. For more information, call (314) 935-7130.

Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry, including Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995) and A Hunger (1988). Her works have also appeared in major journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Paris Review, Epoch, Agni Review, Antioch Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares and Boston Review.

Brock-Broido’s numerous honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and the Witter-Bynner prize of Poetry from the Academy of American Arts & Letters, as well as the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching and the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review.

Brock-Broido received both a B.A. and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She has taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and is currently director of poetry at Columbia.