PULITZER-WINNING POET RICHARD HOWARD TO READ

The award-winning poet, translator and critic Richard Howard will give a reading at Bryn Mawr on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Thomas Great Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Howard is among eight critically acclaimed novelists, short-story writers and poets featured in the College's yearlong Creative Writing Program Reading Series.

The author of 11 books of poetry, Howard was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Untitled Subjects, in which he presents the voices of well-known and marginal figures of the recent past. His latest works include Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003, and Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003, both of which were published this fall. Among his other works are Trappings: New Poems (1999), Like Most Revelations: New Poems (1994), Selected Poems (1991), No Traveller (1989) and Findings (1971).

Considered an authoritative translator of modern French literature, Howard has translated more than 150 works from French, including Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, for which he received the 1983 American Book Award for translation. He was also awarded the PEN American Center medal for translation in 1986 and the France-American Foundation Award in 1987, and was designated a Chevalier de L'Ordre National du Mérite by the French government in 1982.

A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters since 1983, Howard is a past president of PEN American Center, a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a former poet laureate of New York State.

Howard's honors include the Levinson Prize, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. After serving as a Luce Visiting Scholar at Yale University, he held professorships at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Houston. In 1997, he became a professor of writing at Columbia University.

Howard's reading at Bryn Mawr is sponsored by the Whitehill-Linn Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

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