[Yale-readings] 4/24: John Hollander reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>Poet John Hollander reading, Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4 pm
>Whitney Humanities Center Room 208, 53 Wall Street
>The Whitney Humanities Center is proud to host the distinguished 
>poet John Hollander reading from his new book A Draft of Light on 
>Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 4 pm.
>
>Often profoundly philosophical and playful at the same moment, 
>Hollander's poems are always the work of a master craftsman.  The 
>author of eighteen collections of poetry and ten books of criticism, 
>Hollander has been awarded 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 and the current poet laureate of Connecticut, 
>Hollander is the Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale, 
>where he remains a beloved teacher of poetry writing as well as of 
>poetry reading and interpretation.
>
>Advanced copies of A Draft of Light will be available for purchase 
>and signing after the reading.
>
>The event is free and open to the public.  For more information 
>contact Manana Sikic at 203-432-0673 or e-mail manana.sikic at yale.edu

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