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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to be guest at master's tea
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin will be the guest at a master's tea on Wednesday, Oct. 1.
Kumin will speak at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The talk is free and the public is invited to attend.
A prolific author, Kumin has written 11 books of poetry, including "Up Country: Poems of New England" (1972), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 and "Looking for Luck" (1992), which won the Poets' Prize in 1993.
Kumin has published four novels; a collection of short stories; more than 20 children's books; a memoir; and four books of essays, most recently "Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry," and "Women, Animals, and Vegetables." Her memoir, "Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery," chronicles her recovery from a near-fatal accident while driving her horse.
Kumin's most recent work, "The Long Marriage: Poems," published in 2003, describes aspects of her life on her New Hampshire farm.
Among her many honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Poetry and the Levinson Prize. She has served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress and poet laureate of New Hampshire, and is a former chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Award-winning author Robert Stone will visit the campus on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Stone will speak at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house,
Stone, whose writing career has spanned 36 years, is the author of seven novels, including "A Hall of Mirrors" (1967), National Book Award-winning "Dog Soldiers" (1974), "A Flag for Sunrise" (1981) and a story collection, "Bear and His Daughter."
Stone's novels have attained both commercial success and critical acclaim. His writing covers a wide range of topics and geography, from racially charged New Orleans in the '60s to war-torn Saigon in the early '70s to pre-millennial Jerusalem.
In his seven novels, his characters typically suffer from mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction. In "A Hall of Mirrors," a once-brilliant clarinetist turned itinerant alcoholic, gets entangled with white supremacists; in "Dog Soldiers," a playwright with writer's block in search of inspiration for his writing in Vietnam ends up becoming a heroin smuggler; and in "A Flag for Sunrise," an anthropology professor finds himself caught in the midst of a political uprising in a fictional Central American nation.
Stone has been quoted as saying that his work is an attempt to foster "the awareness of ironies and continuities, showing people that being decent is really hard and that we carry within ourselves our own worst enemy."
The next lecture in the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series will feature Ruben Austria, founder and director of BronxConnect of the Urban Youth Alliance in Bronx, New York on Friday, October 3.
Austria will speak on "Faith, Hope, and Love: Why Community-Based Alternatives-to-Incarceration for Youth Really Work" at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 104, Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. For further information, call (203) 432-9935.
Since joining the staff of the Urban Youth Alliance in 1998, Austria has developed BronxConnect into a respected alternative-to-incarceration program with an 83% success rate in keeping young people from re-offending or violating their probation. He has focused his efforts on breaking the cycle of incarceration in both the Bronx and nationwide.
A member of the National Community Justice Network for Youth and the New York City Justice 4 Youth Coalition, Austria is an outspoken critic of the prison industrial complex and its effects on poor communities of color.
He has also conducted workshops and training sessions with the Mentoring Partnership of New York, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City and other non-profit organizations.
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Author of "Dog Soldiers" to speak at master's tea
434 College St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Social policy talk will examine alternatives to incarceration
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