Charles Simic, Poetry Reading
Thursday, April 11, 4:00 PM
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street
Mark Strand Memorial Reading
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl@yale.edu
JOIN US for a reading by poet Charles Simic. Simic is a Serbian-American poet and former co-poetry editor of the Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn’t End, and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963-1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues . In 2007 he was appointed the 15th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (read more: Charles Simic).
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