FIVE POETS TO READ AT TRIBUTE TO MARIANNE MOORE '09

Moore '09 at her class reunion

On Tuesday, April 20, the Creative Writing Program's Reading Series will celebrate a new edition of the poems of Marianne Moore '09 with a reading of her work by five distinguished poets, including the prizewinning poet Grace Schulman, who edited the new volume. Schulman's The Poems of Marianne Moore includes 120 previously uncollected and unpublished works by Moore, one of the greatest poets of the Modernist era. The tribute, which will take place in Thomas Great Hall at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public. Each of the featured poets will give a reading from Moore's poetry and comment on her work.

James Fenton
James Fenton has been a foreign correspondent and a theater critic and writes frequently about art and culture for The New York Review of Books. His books of poems include Out of Danger and Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1984. His works of nonfiction include Leonardo's Nephew, The Strength of Poetry: Oxford Lectures and All the Wrong Places: Adrift in the Politics of the Pacific Rim.

Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Hoffman is the 2003 winner of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, given by The Sewanee Review. The latest of his dozen books of poems is Beyond Silence: Selected Shorter Poems 1948–2003. His Brotherly Love provides the libretto for Ezra Laderman's oratorio, premiered in 2000 by the Philadelphia Singers. Hoffman served as Poet Laureate of the United States, 1973–74, and as Poet in Residence, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1988–99, where he administered the American Poets' Corner (into which Marianne Moore has been inducted). He is the Felix Schelling Professor of English Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.

Karl Kirchwey
Karl Kirchwey is Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. His books of poems include A Wandering Island (1990; recipient of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America), Those I Guard (1993), The Engrafted Word (1998) and At the Palace of Jove (2002). He is also the author of a play in verse, Airedales & Cipher. He has received grants from the NEA and the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim foundations, and the Rome Prize in Literature for 1994–95.

Grace Schulman
Grace Schulman's latest poetry collections are The Paintings of Our Lives (2001) and Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems (2002). She is a recipient of the Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry. Other recent awards include The Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry (2002) and the Distinguished Alumna Award, New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science (2003). Schulman is editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking, 2003), and author of Marianne Moore: The Poetry of Engagement. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College in the City University of New York.

Susan Stewart
Susan Stewart is the Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a former MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of numerous books of criticism and poetry, most recently Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the 2002 Christian Gauss Award in Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa and the 2003 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism, and Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In the coming year the University of Chicago Press will publish her art essays, The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics 1987–2003, and she will join the English department at Princeton University.

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