An Evening with Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Wellesley College where he has taught since 1972. Bidart is the editor of Collected Poems of Robert Lowell (2003) as well as the author of several collections of poetry, including Desire (1997), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award.
Frank Bidart’s most recent collection of poetry, Metaphysical Dog: Poems (2014), won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other books include Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (2009) and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965—90 (1991). His many honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, and The Paris Review’s first Bernard F. Conners Prize.
Professor Bidart’s Athenaeum talk is made possible by CMC's Gould Center for Humanistic Studies' Quinones Lecture Fund .