Saturday, November 7, 2009

C. D. Wright @ Columbia 11.12.09

The Creative Writing Lecture Series at the School of the Arts presents...

CD Wright: Concerning Why Poetry Offers A Better Deal Than The World's Biggest Retailer

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7 p.m.

Dodge Hall, Room 413

She has published a dozen collections, most recently, Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008). In 2007 Like Something Flying Backwards, New and Selected Poems was published in England. Her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize; and a text edition was also released in 2007. Steal Away was on the international shortlist of the Griffin Trust Award. String Light won the 1992 Poetry Center book Award.

Wright is a recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the Robert Creeley Award, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor at Brown University and lives outside of Providence with her husband, poet Forrest Gander.

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