[Yale-readings] Nov. 7, Louise Glück introduces 3 younger poets

[Nancy Kuhl]

>November 7, 2005 - 5 pm WHC auditorium
>Louise Glück Introduces Three Yale Younger Poets:
>Readings by Jay Hopler, Richard Siken and Peter Streckfus
>
>Whitney Humanities Center will co-sponsor a poetry reading featuring three 
>winners of the Yale Younger Poets prize.
>
>Awarded since 1919, the Yale Younger Poets prize celebrates the most 
>prominent new American poets by bringing the work of previously 
>unpublished artists before the attention of the larger public.  The prize 
>is the oldest annual literary award in the United States.
>
>This year’s event will be introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and 
>U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück, the Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at 
>Yale, and a fellow of Calhoun College. Ms. Glück serves also as judge for 
>the Yale Younger Poets competition.
>
>The featured poets for the event include Jay Hopler, Richard Siken, and 
>Peter Streckfus.  Jay Hopler is the author of Green Squall , a collection 
>of poems that seek to go beyond the “lush tropical surfaces of life” and 
>expose the terrifying world that lies beneath – “a world in which 
>nightmare and celebration are indistinguishable and hope is synonymous 
>with despair.”  Richard Siken is the author of Crush , a powerful new 
>collection of poems driven by panic and obsession that focuses upon the 
>human body. And, Peter Streckfus is the author of The Cuckoo , a book of 
>poems inspired by American and Chinese culture that effectively combines 
>the styles of  John Ashbery and Ezra Pound.
>
>For more information, please contact: john.kulka at yale.edu
>

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