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September 13, 2002|Volume 31, Number 2



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Famed poets to give readings and discuss their craft

Nearly all the living winners of Yale's Bollingen Prize in poetry will read their works and take part in public discussions as part of "Yale, A Place for Poetry," Thursday-Friday, Sept. 19-20.

The participants, who are among the nation's most acclaimed poets, include Pulitzer Prize-winners John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Anthony Hecht, Donald Justice, W.S. Merwin and Gary Snyder; former U.S. poet laureates Mark Strand, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur (the latter two also Pulitzer Prize-winners); and the award-winning authors Robert Creeley and John Hollander. The latter is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale.

The event will begin with public readings by the poets at 8 p.m. on Thursday at First Church of Christ in New Haven (Center Church on the Green), 311 Temple St.

On Friday, there will be concurrent panel discussions 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

The panel on "American Traditions in Poetry" will be moderated by Yale Professor Langdon Hammer and feature as panelists Glück, Creeley, Ashbery, Kunitz and Strand.

The second panel, "The Craft of Poetry Today," will be moderated by the poet, librettist and Yale Review editor J.D. McClatchy and feature as panelists Wilbur, Hecht, Hollander, Justice, Merwin and Snyder.

All the events are free and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center.

The Bollingen Prize was established in 1948 by the late Paul Mellon '29 B.A. and named after Carl Jung's home in Switzerland. The prize, which is administered by the Yale Library's Collection of American Literature, is presented every two years for the best volume published in that time frame or for a poet's lifetime achievement.

From its controversial beginnings in 1948, when Ezra Pound received the reward for his "The Pisan Cantos" (which he had written while incarcerated on charges of treason), the Bollingen Prize has honored poets whose work continues to define modern American literature. It has become one of the most prestigious prizes available to American writers and has been a force in shaping contemporary American letters. Previous winners include such notables as Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Archibald McLeish, W.H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost and Robert Penn Warren.

For more information, contact Nancy Kuhl at (203) 432-2966 or nancy.kuhl@yale.edu, or visit the website at http://highway49.library.yale.edu/bollingen/.


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