Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 26-May 3, 1999

Volume 27, Number 30

Poets Ashbery and Hollander
to read from their works

John Ashbery and John Hollander -- two of the nation's most prominent poets -- will read from their works on Tuesday, April 27.

Sponsored by The Yale Review, the reading will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. It is free and open to the public.

John Ashbery. Ashbery, who was selected by W.H. Auden as the Yale Younger Poet in 1956 for his volume of poetry "Some Trees," has since published more than 16 collections of poems. His other volumes include "The Tennis Court Oath" and "The Double Dream of Spring." He is the only American poet to win all three major annual literary prizes -- the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Prize -- for one book, his poetry collection titled "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (1975). Most recently, Ashbery published a book-length poem titled "Girls on the Run."

Ashbery's other awards include Italy's prestigious Feltrinelli Prize and the Horst Bienek Prize for poetry, given by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He has also received a MacArthur Fellowship. He has been a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets since 1988.

Ashbery has taught at his alma mater, Harvard University, where he was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry 1989-90, and at Bard College. He also has been a reviewer for Art News.

John Hollander. Two years after John Ashbery was selected a Yale Younger Poet, John Hollander won that honor for his first book of poems, "A Crackling of Thorns." Since then, Hollander, who is Sterling Professor of English at Yale, has published 16 additional books of poetry. These include "The Night Mirror," "Types of Shape," "Reflections on Espionage," "Harp Lake," "Blue Wine," "Powers of Thirteen," and "In Time and Place."

Both a poet and a scholar, Hollander is also the author of eight critical works, including his most recent, "The Poetry of Everyday Life" (1998), and "Melodious Guile," a collection of essays on poetry. He also edited a number of anthologies, including "Poems of Our Moment" and "Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize." He was a coeditor of "The Oxford Anthology of English Literature" and a coeditor (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) of "Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls." Hollander has also written libretti and exhibition catalogues, including a study of Yale painter William Bailey.

Hollander joined the Yale faculty in 1959 and later taught at Hunter College & Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1966-77, after which he returned to Yale. His numerous other honors have included the Levinson Prize and Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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