Please join us for a reading by Eamon Grennan and Stephen Burt. A reception and book signing will follow the event.

Stephen Burt grew up in and around Washington, DC, taught at Macalester College in Minnesota from 2000-07, and is now Associate Professor of English at Harvard. His first book of poetry, Popular Music , was published by the Center for Literary Publishing, University Press of Colorado in 1999. Burt's most recent book of poems is Parallel Play published by Graywolf Press in 2006. His books of criticism include Randall Jarrell and His Age , The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence , and Close Calls with Nonsense : Reading New Poetry (2009). Burt has also published criticism on the works of Irish poets. For this reading, Burt will read his own poems as well as some poems by Irish poet Paul Muldoon.

Eamon Grennan is a Dublin native and Irish citizen who has lived in the United States for over thirty years. Educated at University College in Dublin and Harvard University, he teaches in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is the Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College. His collections include The Quick of It, (Graywolf Press, 2005); Renvyle, Winter (special limited edition, 2003); Still Life with Waterfall (2002), winner of the Lenore Marshall Award; Selected & New Poems (2000); Relations: New & Selected Poems (1998); So It Goes (1995), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize ; As If It Matters (1992); What Light There Is and Other Poems (1989), a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; What Light There Is (1987); and Wildly for Days (1983). His Leopardi: Selected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1997) won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and he has published a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Creighton University Press, 1999). As well as a number of Pushcart Prizes, he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Poughkeepsie, and spends as much time as he can in the West of Ireland.