You are invited to the first Mixed Media event of the spring semester, where poet, critic and translator Susan Stewart will speak from 4:30-6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6 in Falvey Hall in the Brown Center.
In addition to the lecture, Stewart will also be giving a poetry reading at noon on Friday, Feb. 7 in Lazarus Auditorium. She will read from "Cinder: New and Selected Poems," as well as selections from newer work.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University, is an author of many books of prose, including “On Longing,” “Poetry and the Fate of the Senses,” “The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics,” and “The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook in the Making.” Her books of poetry include “Columbarium,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her recent “Cinder: New and Selected Poems.”
She is a former MacArthur Fellow, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Berlin Prize Fellow and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.