Date/Time
Jan 30, 2014
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Brown University
69 Waterman Street
Providence,
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Tags
author, literature
Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and literary criticism, Susan Howe’s recent collection of poems That This, published by New Directions won the Bollingen Prize in 2011. Her earlier critical study, My Emily Dickinson, was re-issued in 2007 with an introduction by Eliot Weinberger. Three CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth andSouls of the Labadie Tract, and Frolic Architecture. were released on the Blue Chopsticks label (2005; 2011). Howe held the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo until her retirement in 2007. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and served as a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets between 2000-2006. In fall, 2009 she was awarded a Fellowship to the American Academy at Berlin,recently she was an Artist In Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. This fall her recent word collages were exhibited in a show at the Yale Union in Portland, Oregon.