THE EVENING READING SERIES
Marie Ponsot is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of the volumes of poetry "Admit Impediment," "The Bird Catcher," "Springing," and, most recently, "Easy." The American Academy of Arts and Letters, in awarding Ms. Ponsot the Academy Award in Literature, has said: ". . .Marie Ponsot invented her own forms and gave us a poetry like no other. A writer of powerful feelings and razor-sharp wit, she is that totally American phenomenon, the self-invented genius. . . A writer of tough, available, elegant poetry, she has created over the decades her own school of New York poetry." Time Out New York has described Ms. Ponsot as "one of America's strongest poets."
This is an especially lovely moment for our campus community to honor Ms. Ponsot, a beloved former member of our English Dept.
March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Queens College, Music Building
http://www.qc.edu/readings
$20 admission. Free with CUNY student ID. Open to
