English Department News

Poet Louise Glück Reads at UMD

The Department of English and Women's Studies Program are pleased to welcome former Poet Laureate Louise Glück to UMass Dartmouth on April 24th for a poetry reading and the release of Siren, the women's journal on campus.

When: 4:00-5:30pm
Where: The Library Browsing Area

Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 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. A chapbook, October, was published by Saraband Books in 2003. Glück's tenth book of poetry is Averno (FSG), which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 and was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her 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.

Louise Glück taught at Williams College for 20 years and is currently 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 September 2003, Louise Glück was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004). In 2007, Louise Glück was reappointed for a 5-year term as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

"There are few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Glück ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute." – The Washington Post