Sunday, May 2, 2010
3:00 pm
McManus Room
Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including her most recent,
Sea Change (2008). She has also edited two anthologies,
Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and
The Best American Poetry 1990. Graham's 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.
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003, and she currently sits on the contributing editorial board to the literary journal Conjunctions. She is the Boylston Professor at Harvard, the first woman to be awarded this position.
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. The Times Literary Supplement says, “One of the most intelligent poets in the language . . . [Graham] is like no one else, neither in her rhythms nor in her insistence on opening up, scrutinizing, and even reversing our experience of time and space.”
Books by Graham.
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