Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Poetry Reading: Galway Kinnell and David Tucker

Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Library of Congress

"Galway Kinnell and David Tucker will read selections of their poetry. Strong is Your Hold, is due in November. His Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1982. Another poetry volume A New Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2000) was a finalist for the National Book Award. It is to include When the Towers Fell, a poem about lives lost in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Kinnell is a former MacArthur fellow and was the Vermont state poet from 1989 to 1993."

"Journalist and poet Tucker studied poetry with Donald Hall and Robert Hayden and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. In 2005, Tucker's first volume of poetry, Late for Work, won a Bakeless Literary Prize from Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. According to the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, Late for Work follows reporters jostling for headlines, evoking the gritty glamour of the newsroom in wry, poignant poems. Tucker has worked for 28 years at leading newspapers and is a member of the New Jersey Star-Ledgerteam that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news."

Location: Mary Pickford Theater 3rd floor, James Madison building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE.
Admission: Free
Phone: 202-707-1308 

Library of Congress

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