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MEDIA CONTACT: Department of English (585) 275-4092 or Helene Snihur (585) 275-7800
April 1, 2005
TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus
ADMISSION: Free and open to the public.
Award-winning poet Louise Glück will discuss and answer questions about her work at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester’s River Campus.
Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Wild Iris, which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; Arafat, for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award. She also has published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, which won the PEN/Martha Allbrand Award for Nonfiction.
Elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999, Glück also has served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
Glück will first answer some questions presented by James Longenbach, the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English at the University, and then will answer audience questions. The event is sponsored by the Department of English. For more information, contact (585) 275-4092.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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