The Role of the Poet in Our Times Featuring Jorie Graham

The Role of the Poet in Our Times Featuring Jorie Graham

The Role of the Poet in Our Times Featuring Jorie Graham

Thursday, April 21, 2016
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Center for the Arts Grand Tier III

Refreshments will be provided

The Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winning poet will read her own and others' work and speak about the importance of poetry and the humanities in today's world at The Vernon and Margarette Gras Lecture in the Humanities.

Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco, 2015); Place: New Poems (Ecco, 2012); Sea Change (Ecco, 2008); Never (2002); Swarm (2000); and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Graham has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. 

Brought to you by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program, and the GMU Folklore Roundtable.