Document Type
Lecture
Publication Date
10-21-2008
Publication Title
Oral interpretation of poetry; Poetry, American, Poets laureate
Publisher
Black Mountain Institute
Abstract
2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn't End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). Simic held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1984-1989, and has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. In 2007, the same day he was appointed Poet Laureate, Simic received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
Disciplines
American Literature | Arts and Humanities | Literature in English, North America | Modern Literature
Language
English
Repository Citation
Simic, C.
(2008).
Reading of selected poetry.
Oral interpretation of poetry; Poetry, American, Poets laureate
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/43
Audio
COinS
Comments
UNLV Student Union Theatre
Video File size: 327 megabytes
Audio file size: 55.5 megabytes
This event was co-sponsored by the UNLV Department of English with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.