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MTK ask
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Aug 11, 2013
Poetry Reading
Brookyn, NY
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Aug 13, 2013
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Aug 20, 2013
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| Poet: |
Jack Gilbert |
| Featured Poets: | Jack Gilbert with Jim Finnegan, Linda Gregg, Mary Karr, Henry Lyman, Meghan O’Rourke, and Gerald Stern |
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May 12, 2009, 7 p.m.
NYU Cantor Film Center, 38 East 8th Street, New York, NY
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| Free and open to the public |
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We invite you to join us for an evening honoring a thrilling American poet, Jack Gilbert, on the occasion of the Knopf publication of his new book, The Dance Most of All.
Soon after publishing his first book, Views of Jeopardy, in 1962, which won the Yale Younger Poets Series, Gilbert received a Guggenheim Fellowship and subsequently moved abroad, living in England, Denmark, and Greece. During that time, he also toured fifteen countries as a lecturer on American Literature for the U.S. State Department. Nearly twenty years after completing Views of Jeopardy, he published his second book, Monolithos, winner of the Stanley Kunitz Prize and the American Poetry Review Prize. Both books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
About Gilbert's work, the poet James Dickey said, "He takes himself away to a place more inward than is safe to go; from that awful silence and tightening, he returns to us poems of savage compassion."
Gilbert is also the author of Transgressions: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2006), Refusing Heaven (2005), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 (1996). His poetry has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The Quarterly, Poetry, Ironwood, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and other journals.
He has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Gilbert was the 1999-2000 Grace Hazard Conkling writer-in-residence at Smith College and a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in 2004. He currently resides in western Massachusetts.
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| Sponsored by The Poetry Society of America. Co-sponsored by the
Academy of American Poets, the Creative Writing Program at New York University, Poets House, and Alfred A. Knopf.
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(212) 274-0343
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