[Yale-readings] 5-2: Yale Younger Poets Reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>CONTACT:        Dorie Baker 203-432-8553 or dorie.baker at yale.edu
>                 Manana Sikic 203-432-0673 or manana.sikic at yale.edu
>
>Louise Glück to Moderate Reading by Winners of 
>the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize
>
>         New Haven, Conn.- The five most recent 
> winners of the prestigious Yale Series of 
> Younger Poets competition will read from their 
> work on Friday, May 2nd.  Free and open to the 
> public, the event will take place at the 
> Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208, at 4:00 p.m.
>
>         Awarded since 1919, the Yale Series of 
> Younger Poets prize celebrates the most 
> prominent new American poets by bringing the 
> work of previously unpublished artists to the 
> attention of the larger public.  Previous 
> winners of the prize include such talents as 
> Adrienne Rich, John Ashberry, and Robert 
> Hass.  It is the longest-running poetry prize in the United States.
>
>         The event on May 2nd will be introduced 
> and moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 
> and former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück, the 
> Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at Yale, and a 
> fellow of Calhoun College.  Ms. Glück is also 
> as the current judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
>
>         The featured poets for the event are 
> Peter Streckfus, who won the prize in 2003; 
> Richard Siken, the 2004 winner; Jay Hopler, the 
> 2005 winner; Jessica Fisher, the 2006 winner; 
> and Fady Joudah, the 2007 winner and most 
> recent recipient of the prize.  The poets will read from recent work.
>
>         Peter Streckfus teaches creative 
> writing at The University of Alabama.  His 
> prize-winning book, "The Cuckoo," received much 
> positive critical attention, including this 
> from the Virginia Quarterly Review: "The 
> pleasures in 'The Cuckoo' are many; Streckfus's 
> sense of humor is quite fetching, as are his 
> social awareness lyrics. . . . [A] promising 
> debut collection."  Richard Siken's book, 
> "Crush," which won the Yale Series of Younger 
> Poets prize, also won a Lambda Literary Award, 
> the Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the 
> National Book Critics Circle Award.  In a 
> review in Rain Taxi, his book was described as 
> "An explosive, frantic splash of language and 
> imagery."  Jay Hopler, who teaches at the 
> University of South Florida and is the editor 
> of a forthcoming anthology of younger American 
> poetry, is the author of the critically 
> acclaimed collection of poems "Green 
> Squall."  Publishers Weekly called the poems in 
> "Green Squall" "truly stunning."  Jessica 
> Fisher recently received her Ph.D. in English 
> from the University of California, 
> Berkeley.  The New Yorker called her book, 
> "Frail-Craft," "an intelligent, often playful 
> collection."  Fady Joudah is a medical doctor 
> in Houston and a member of Doctors Without 
> Borders.  His book, "The Earth in the Attic," 
> is, in the author's own words, "a book of 
> exile...a metaphor for current psychic reality."
>
>         The poetry reading is sponsored jointly 
> by Yale University Press and the Whitney Humanities Center.
>
>--
>Manana Sikic
>Program Coordinator
>Whitney Humanities Center
>Yale University
>53 Wall Street
>P.O. Box 208298
>New Haven, CT 06520-8298
>Tel.  203 432-0673
>Fax. 203 432-1087
>http://www.yale.edu/whc/
>
>
>
>

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