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Award-winning poet to be guest of master's tea
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht will visit the campus on Thursday, Sept. 25.
While on campus, Hecht will deliver a master's tea and read from his work at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. Sponsored by the Department of English and Calhoun College, the tea is free and open to the public.
Hecht is the author of seven books of poetry, among them "The Transparent Man," "Millions of Strange Shadows" and "The Hard Hours," for which he won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize.
In addition to his poetry collections, Hecht has also published critical essays and translations, including "Aeschylus (Seven Against Thebes)."
Hecht taught at many universities during his career as a professor, most recently at Georgetown University, where he recently retired as the University Professor in the graduate school.
In 1995, he published "On the Laws of the Poetic Art," which he originally delivered as the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 1992.
Hecht has been honored with numerous awards in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, among them the Bollingen Prize and, in 2000, the Robert Frost Medal given by the Poetry Society of America.
The chancellor emeritus of the Academy of National Poets, Hecht is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy in Rome, the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Hecht's most recent collection is "The Darkness and the Light," published in 2001, and "Collected Later Poems," a companion volume to his earlier publication "Collected Earlier Poems," which will be published this fall.
Sue Bredekamp, director of research at the Council for Professional Recognition in Washington, D.C., will speak in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Sept. 26.
Bredekamp's talk, titled "Early Literacy and Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Programs for Young Children," will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 104, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Avenue. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information call (203) 432-9935.
In addition to her position at the Council, Bredekamp is a consultant for the Head Start Bureau and the primary content developer and on-air faculty for HeadsUp! Reading, a satellite distance learning course on early literacy.
From 1984 to 1998, she served as director of professional development at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). She co-authored "Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children," the 1998 joint position statement of the International Reading Association and the NAEYC. Also for the NAEYC, she developed and directed a national, voluntary accreditation system for which she wrote three editions of "Accreditation Criteria and Procedures and Guide to Accreditation." She is the primary author of the 1987 and 1997 editions of NAEYC's publication "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs."
Bredekamp is the author of numerous articles related to standards for professional practice and professional development, and has coordinated development of training videotapes as well as videoconferencing.
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