[Yale-readings] TONIGHT: Poet Eavan Boland
Nancy Kuhl
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Thu Feb 7 10:17:59 EST 2008
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 Irelands premier
contemporary poetic voices. Her ten books of poetryincluding this years
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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