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Saturday, October 17, 2009 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (ET)
Two distinguished poets, Robert Pinsky & Louise Gluck, both former Poet Laureates, will read their favorite poems and answer questions from the audience about their poems and poetry. Come expecting to hear poems that will move you, excite you and delight you -- and for a chance to talk with two of the most thoughtful and creative poets of our time. Seating is limited so reserve your place now.
Afterwards, from 8-9pm, Afaa Weaver and Anne Waldman will take the stage and read their work: http://weaverwaldman.eventbrite.com/ (reserve your ticket now!)
Robert Pinsky
is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From
1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the
Library of Congress.
Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections
of his own poetry. His published work also includes critically
acclaimed translations, including a collection of poems by Czesław
Miłosz and Dante Alighieri. He teaches at Boston University and is the
poetry editor at Slate.
Louise Glück
Louise
Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She is the
author of eleven books of poetry, most recently, A Village Life:Poems (Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2009) and Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), a
finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages
(2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review's
Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry. In 2004,
Sarabande Books released her six-part poem "October"
as a chapbook. Her other books include Meadowlands (1996); The Wild
Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of
America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she
received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for
Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National
Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the
Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. In a review in The New
Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote: "Louise Glück is a poet of
strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable
books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of
being neither "confessional"
nor "intellectual" in the usual senses of those words." She has
also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
(1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her honors
include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a
Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from
the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for
the Arts. In the fall of 2003, she replaced Billy
Collins as the Library of Congress's twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in
Poetry. In 2003, she was announced as the new judge of the Yale Series of
Younger Poets.
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