[Yale-readings] TODAY: John Hollander and Richard Howard
Nancy Kuhl
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Thu Oct 28 13:38:38 EDT 2004
Poets John Hollander and Richard Howard reading from their work TODAY
Thursday, October 28, 2004 7 p.m. Linsly-Chittenden 102 (63 High Street)
Yale University
John Hollander
John Hollander has written several volumes of poetry including Picture
Window (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), The Figurehead (1999), Tesserae (1993),
Selected Poetry (1993), Harp Lake (1988), Powers of Thirteen (1983),
Spectral Emanations (1978), Types of Shape (1969), and A Crackling of
Thorns (1958), which was chosen by W.H. Auden for the Yale Series of
Younger Poets. John Hollander's many honors include the Bollingen Prize,
the Levinson Prize, and the MLA Shaughnessy Medal, as well as fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National
Endowment for the Arts. A former Chancellor of The Academy of American
Poets, he is the Sterling Professor of English Emeritus at Yale.
Richard Howard
Richard Howard is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, including Talking
Cures (Turtle Point Press, 2002), Trappings: New Poems (Turtle Point Press,
1999); Like Most Revelations: New Poems (1994); Selected Poems (1991); No
Traveller (1989); Findings (1971); Untitled Subjects (1969), for which he
received the Pulitzer Prize; and Quantities (1962). He has published more
than 150 translations from the French, including Baudelaires Les Fleurs du
mal, for which he received the 1983 American Book Award for translation.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux recently published Howards selected poetry and
prose in Inner Voices: Selected Poems 1963-2003 and Paper Trail: Selected
Prose 1965-2003. His honors include the Levinson Prize, the Harriet Monroe
Memorial Prize, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Literary Award,
the Ordre National du Mérite from the French government, and the PEN
Translation Medal, as well as fellowships from The Academy of American
Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. Currently
he is the poetry editor of The Paris Review and Western Humanities Review.
He is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and lives in New
York City where he teaches in the Writing Division of the School of the
Arts, Columbia University.
Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047
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