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- 5/22/08 (Thur)
Hammer Poetry Series - Frank Bidart
7:00PM until 8:30PM
In Hammer Museum
Frank Bidart’s most recent volumes of poems are Star Dust (2005), Music Like Dirt (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002), and Desire (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1997). His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series.In 2007, Frank Bidart received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. His other honors include election to the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace- Reader’s Digest Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award given by the Poetry Society of America, and the inaugural Bernard F. Connors Prize from The Paris Review in 1981. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
-- submitted by Susan Skarzynski (susan@humanities.ucla.edu)
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