[Yale-readings] Alfred Corn Reads at Central, Thursday, 4/14, 5:00 pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>AWARD WINNING POET ALFRED CORN READS AT CCSU
>Thursday, April 14th, 2005
>5:00 pm
>in the Marcus White Living Room on the campus of CCSU, New Britain, CT
>Free and Open to the Public
>contact: shankarr at ccsu.edu
>
>
>“By turns mandarin and earthy, intricate and bold, Autobiographies is both 
>an exploration of our variegated national culture and a significant 
>contribution to it.  Sinuous and supple, his verse twines around our 
>nomadic unease, rooting us in a poet’s imagination. Alfred Corn is a 
>national resource, a bard of astonishing breadth.”
>
>                ­Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
>
>“For nearly three decades, Corn’s intelligence, command of craft, and 
>extraordinary ear have shaped an impressive body of poems, and with 
>Stake’s generous selection from the first twenty years, this reflective 
>richly textured work­cerebral, playful, elegiac, and compassionate­shows 
>itself to singular advantage. 
 Alfred Corn has kept a true course 
>throughout his distinguished career: in poems elegant and inventive, he 
>shows us a world it is a pleasure to revisit.”
>
>      ­Ned Balbo, Antioch Review
>
>
>Alfred Corn is the author of nine books of poems, including Stake: 
>Selected Poems, 1972-1992, which appeared in 1999, and a new collection of 
>poems, titled Contradictions, which appeared with Copper Canyon Press in 
>2002. He has also published a novel, Part of His Story, and a collection 
>of critical essays titled The Metamorphoses of Metaphor.  He has received 
>Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, an Award in Literature from the Academy 
>and Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from the Academy of 
>American Poets, and the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. For many 
>years he taught in the Graduate Writing Program of the School of the Arts 
>at Columbia and has held visiting posts at UCLA, the University of 
>Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence, Yale, and the 
>University of Tulsa.  A frequent contributor to The New York Times Book 
>Review and The Nation, he also writes art criticism for Art in America and 
>ARTnews magazines. In 2001 Abrams published Aaron Rose Photographs, for 
>which he supplied the introduction. In October 2003 he was a fellow of the 
>Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, and for 2004-2005, he 
>holds the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts.
>***************
>Ravi Shankar
>Poet-in-Residence
>Assistant Professor
>CCSU - English Dept.
>860-832-2766
>shankarr at ccsu.edu

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