[Yale-readings] TODAY: John Hollander and Richard Howard

[Nancy Kuhl]

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 Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du 
mal, for which he received the 1983 American Book Award for translation. 
Farrar, Straus and Giroux recently published Howard’s 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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