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For immediate
release:
September 18, 2000
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CONTACT:
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Mary
Ann Hill
(781) 283-2373
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POETS DAVID FERRY
AND ROBERT PINSKY
TO READ FROM THEIR WORKS
WELLESLEY,
Mass. -- Two
renowned poets and former Wellesley College professors,
David Ferry and Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the
United States, will read from their works at Wellesley
College on Sunday, September 24. The special
"Afternoon
of Poetry" will be held
in Jewett Auditorium as part of the College's
125th
anniversary celebrations.
Refreshments will be served from 2:30 to 3 pm; the program
will open with poetry readings and comments, from 3:00 to
4:15, followed by book-signing from 4:15 to 4:45.
Acclaimed poet, translator, and
Wellesley professor from 1952-1989 (now Sophie Chantal Hart
Professor Emeritus), Ferry
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His most recent poetry collection, Of No Country I
Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations, received
the Bingham Poetry Prize and was a finalist for both the New
Yorker Book Award and the PEN New England/Winship Award.
Robert Pinsky, who has been
hailed as the most public of all U.S. poet laureates,
created "The Favorite Poem Project" during his 1997-2000
term. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the
Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry and the William
Carlos Williams Prize, and he has been nominated for the
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Pinsky was a professor at
Wellesley from 1967-1981. His newest volume of poetry is
Jersey Rain.
This event is sponsored by the
Friends
of the Library.
Reservations are not necessary; however, seating is
limited.
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