U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck
to Speak at Athenaeum April 4

The Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum in coordination with the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies is pleased to welcome poet Louise Gl?ck to campus on April 4 to speak and read from her work.
Gl?ck is a former United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004), Pulitzer-Prize winner, and author of numerous books of poetry, including The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Magazine's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her newest collection of poems is entitled A Village Life (2009).
Gl?ck's honors also include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award (2007), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Gl?ck received the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
Louise Gl?ck taught at Williams College for 20 years and is currently the Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has been a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In 2007, Louise Gl?ck was reappointed for a 5-year term as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Robert Pinsky, the literary critic and poet, praises her poetry, saying, "Louise (Gl?ck) sometimes uses language so plain it can almost seem like someone is speaking to you spontaneously but it's always intensely distinguished."
Gl?ck's visit to the Athenaeum is made possible by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, through the Quinones Distinguished Lectureship Series. To make a reservation, visit the Athenaeum web page.