Charles Simic, recipient of the Pullitzer Prize and former Poet Laureate of the United States, will be giving a talk at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writer's House this Thursday, September 10th, 2009. He will be in conversation with Alice Quinn.
Simic, originally from Yugoslavia (in what is now Serbia) is the author of numerous books of poetry. His Selected Poems: 1963-2003 received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize, and his collection The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems won him the Pullitzer in 1990. His most recent collection of poems is That Little Something (Hartcourt, 2008). He will be speaking on his recent work of nonfiction, The Renegade: Writing on Poetry and a Few Other Things (Braziller, 2009).
For more information check out NYU’s website: http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/readingseries
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
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