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Fall Quarter Poetry Events

Oct 7, Tuesday, 8pm:  William Logan

Elliston Room

William Logan is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Macbeth in Venice (Penguin 2003), The Whispering Gallery (Penguin 2005), and a new collection, Strange Flesh (2008), as well as four books of criticism.  He is also the co-editor of a book on the poetry of Donald Justice, Certain Solitudes (1997).  Winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Logan is a regular critic of poetry for the New York Times Book Review and writes a biannual verse chronicle for the New Criterion.  He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Florida. 

Contact:  John Drury
 
Oct 22, Wednesday: Robert Pinsky

3pm Q&A: Stratford Heights Grill

8pm poetry reading: 427 ERC

Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000, is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Gulf Music: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2007); Jersey Rain (2000); and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee.  He is also the author of several prose works, including The Life of David (Schocken, 2006); Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002); and The Sounds of Poetry (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.  Additionally, Pinsky has published two acclaimed works of traslation: The Inferno of Dante (1994), which was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor's Choice, and received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award; and The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz (with Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass).  His honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, both the William Carlos Williams Award and the Shelley Memorial prize from the Poetry Society of America, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate, and he teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. Photo courtesy of Emma Dodge Hanson. 

Contact:  Don Bogen
 
Oct 31, 4pm:  Tyrone Williams

Elliston Room
Poet Tyrone Williams reads from recent work.  Williams is an associate professor at Xavier University. 

Contact: Don Bogen 
 

 

Friday, Nov 14, 3pm:  Geoffrey Brock

427 ERC

Contact: Don Bogen