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TITLE: Poet Jorie Graham reads at the Library's Celebration of National Poetry Month
SPEAKER: Jorie Graham
EVENT DATE: 04/26/2005
RUNNING TIME: 62 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham read from her new book, "Overlord: Poems" (Ecco Press, 2005). Graham's appearance is part of the Academy of American Poets "10 Years/10 Cities Reading Series," which marks the 10th celebration of National Poetry Month, founded by the academy on 1996. The Library's Poetry and Literature Center, founded in the 1940s, is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Speaker Biography: Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950 and spent her youth in Italy. She attended New York University as an undergraduate and received a master's degree from the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including "Never" (HarperCollins, 2002); "Swarm" (2000); "The Errancy" (1997); "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994," which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; "Materialism" (1993); "Region of Unlikeness" (1991); "The End of Beauty" (1987); "Erosion" (1983); and "Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts" (1980). She has also edited two anthologies, "Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language" (1996) and "The Best American Poetry 1990." Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.