Former US Poet Laureate Reading at IU
Louise Glück, former US Poet Laureate
Poetry reading and presentation
Wednesday, March 28, 5:00 pm Frangipani Room
Reception will follow in the University Club
Louise Glück is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and essayist who served as US Poet Laureate in 2003-04. She is the author of numerous books of poetry including Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker magazine’s book award in poetry; The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; and Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her most recent book of poetry is Averno (2006), which, as the New York Times Book Review writes, “demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers.”
“Writing is not decanting of personality,” Glück wrote in Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), “The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned.”
Glück is currently on the faculty of the creative writing program at Boston University, and is Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, and in 1999 she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.