Acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido will read from her work at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 for The Writing Program Reading Series.
The reading, sponsored by The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is free and open to the public and will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 207.
Brock-Broido is the author of three collections of poetry: Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995) and A Hunger (1988). Her works have 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 earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University, as well as a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University.
She has taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and is director of poetry at Columbia.
For more information, call 935-7130.