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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The department of English
presents a poetry reading by<br>
Louise Gl�ck<br>
Adjunct Professor of English and Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at
Yale<br>
Monday, April 24th at 4:00 pm<br>
Room 211 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.<br>
This event is free and open to the public.<br>
Books will be available for sale at the reading, courtesy of Labyrinth
Books.<br><br>
<font size=2>Former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gl�ck is the author of
numerous books of poetry, including her newest collection, <i>Averno :
Poems</i>, released in March 2006. Her other volumes include <i>The
Seven Ages</i> (Ecco Press, 2001); <i>Vita Nova</i> (1999), winner of
<i>Boston Book Review�s</i> Bingham Poetry Prize; <i>Meadowlands</i>
(1996); <i>The Wild Iris</i> (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize
and the Poetry Society of America�s William Carlos Williams Award;
<i>Ararat</i> (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt
National Prize for Poetry; and <i>The Triumph of Achilles</i> (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. She has also published a collection of essays, <i>Proofs and
Theories: Essays on Poetry</i> (1994), which won the PEN/Marha Albrand
Award for Nonfiction. Her other honors include the Bollingen Prize on
Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the
Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment
for the Arts. In 1999, she was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of
American Poets. In the fall of 2003, Gl�ck assumed her duties as the
Library of Congress�s twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.</font>
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