[Yale-readings] TONIGHT: Poet Eavan Boland

[Nancy Kuhl]

Eavan Boland

Master's Tea
Thursday, February 7, 4 p.m., Jonathan Edwards College in the "swing 
space," 100 Tower Parkway

Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 7, 7 p.m., Linsly-Chittenden 101 (63 High Street)

Sponsored by the Department of English and Jonathan Edwards College


Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland is one of Ireland’s premier 
contemporary poetic voices. Her ten books of poetry­including this year’s 
New Collected Poems (W.W. Norton and Company), joining An Origin Like 
Water: Collected Poems 1967-87 ­ document the challenges of modern 
identity, filtered through lenses of Irish history, femininity, and the 
trials of the everyday. In her poem “The Pomegranate,” Boland movingly 
writes of her first encounter with the Eurydice myth as “an exiled child in 
the crackling dust of/ the underworld, the stars blighted.” She has taught 
at Bowdoin and Washington University, and has been Writer in Residence at 
Trinity College and University College Dublin. She is on the board of the 
Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and is on 
the advisory board of the International Writers Center at Washington 
University. She currently teaches English and writing at Stanford.



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