Wednesday October 27, 6:30pm
Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Room 230
Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009), Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her essay collection Unauthorized Voices, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2010. Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Marie Etienne’s King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2007 Robert Fagles Translation Prize and the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (The Graywolf Press, 2008). For her own work, she is a past recipient of the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets’ Prize, the National Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, and the American PEN Voelcker Award for poetry in 2010. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Alice Quinn is the Executive Director of The Poetry Society of America.
A reception will follow the reading, and books will be for sale.
Contact MFA Director Nicole Cooley at ncooley@qc.edu for more information.
Co-sponsors: The Poetry Society of America & The MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation Reading Series
