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Date 3-8-06
Contact Christopher Mapp 601.266.4497
Hattiesburg
– The University of Southern Mississippi will host award-winning
poets James Tate and Dara Wier March 16-17, 2006, as part of the
Center for Writers’ visiting writers program. A joint reading, open
to the public, will be held on campus in the Ogletree Alumni House
on Thursday, March 16 at 7 p.m. During their residency, Tate and
Wier will also conduct an afternoon workshop with graduate students.
In 1991 James
Tate was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams
Award for Poetry for his collection, Selected Poems. Tate
is also the recipient of the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship,
a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Tanning Prize
from the Academy of American Poets. His first book of poems, The
Lost Pilot (1967), won the Yale Younger Poets series award.
He has published
13 other books of poetry, including Memoir of the Hawk
(2001), Shroud of the Gnome (1997), Worshipful Company
of the Fletchers (1994), and, most recently, Return to
the City of White Donkeys, published by Harper Collins in 2004.
He has also published a novel, Lucky Darryl (1977), and
two collections of short stories, Hottentot Ossuary (1974)
and Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee (2005). He currently
holds the position of Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Dara Wier, a
native of Louisiana, is the author of nine collections of poetry,
including Reverse Rapture (2005), Hat on a Pond
(2002), Voyages in English (2001), Our Master Plan
(1998), Blue for the Plough (1992), The Book of Knowledge
(1988), All You Have in Common (1984), The 8-Step Grapevine
(1980), and Blood, Hook and Eye (1977). She is the recipient
of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has also
been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the Jerome Shestack Prize from
the American Poetry Review. Wier directs the Master of Fine Arts
Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts
in Amherst.
The Center for
Writers’ Visitors Series will continue on Thursday, March 23 with
a reading by the critically acclaimed fiction writer Amy Hempel.
All readings are free of charge and open to the public.
Last updated:
03/06/06 |
