Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith visited Butler this week. She read new and old poems and told stories of their provenance. She also spent a good amount of time after the reading (and during a dedicated Q&A the day after) answering questions ranging in subject from poetic craft to motherhood to space travel.
Smith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. She teaches at Princeton University.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith visited Butler this week. She read new and old poems and told stories of their provenance. She also spent a good amount of time after the reading (and during a dedicated Q&A the day after) answering questions ranging in subject from poetic craft to motherhood to space travel.
Smith was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. She teaches at Princeton University.
What are you doing this Sunday evening? Well cancel it, because at 7PM on December 8, Broad Ripple’s Indiana Writers Center is hosting a new reading in their series An Evening with the Muse: The Inter Urban Poets, the roster of which includes two talented, veteran poets from our MFA program, Tracy Mishkin and Allyson Horton. The other poets on the bill include Linda Lee, Jeffrey Owen Pearson, Helen Townsend, Ali Birge, Mike Brockley and Pat Cupp. The event is free, open to the public, and will feed both your soul and your body. Because poems… and refreshments. Continue reading
On Tuesday, November 19, 7:30 PM in the Krannert Room of Clowes Hall, Slovenian avant-garde poet Tomaž Šalamun brings our fall Visiting Writers Series to a close. Author of over 30 books of poetry, translated to over 20 languages, Šalamun published his first book Poker at the tender age of 25. Perhaps more impressive, Šalamun was arrested at the tenderer age of 23, spending a few days in jail over his iconoclastic poem “Duma ’64,” in which he portrayed an important government official as a dead cat. Unsurprisingly, the official took umbrage.
Salamun has won a Pushcart Prize as well as the Jenko Prize and Slovenia’s Prešeren and Mladost Prizes. Now, I could give you more biography, but many moons ago Šalamun was helpful enough to publish autobiographical poem “History” in The Guardian. I haven’t read it, but I’m sure it will be both illuminating as well as mightily accurate. Here goes: Continue reading
On Tuesday, November 19, 7:30 PM in the Krannert Room of Clowes Hall, Slovenian avant-garde poet Tomaž Šalamun brings our fall Visiting Writers Series to a close. Author of over 30 books of poetry, translated to over 20 languages, Šalamun published his first book Poker at the tender age of 25. Perhaps more impressive, Šalamun was arrested at the tenderer age of 23, spending a few days in jail over his iconoclastic poem “Duma ’64,” in which he portrayed an important government official as a dead cat. Unsurprisingly, the official took umbrage.
Salamun has won a Pushcart Prize as well as the Jenko Prize and Slovenia’s Prešeren and Mladost Prizes. Now, I could give you more biography, but many moons ago Šalamun was helpful enough to publish autobiographical poem “History” in The Guardian. I haven’t read it, but I’m sure it will be both illuminating as well as mightily accurate. Here goes: Continue reading
After months of preparation, planning, and a venue upgrade, on Tuesday Butler’s first annual Writer’s Harvest came and went without a hitch. It was, in the words of one of our attendees, “One of the coolest, most amazing things I’ve ever gotten to see.” Hopefully you managed to hear about it from a friend, read about it in the paper (or on this very blog), or maybe you saw one of its beautiful posters– and hopefully you attended.
If you did, you saw eight (8!) tall boxes of donated rice and dried pasta filled to the brim, and you saw 761 spectators of all ages fill Clowes Hall. Considering the capacity of our original venue – Atherton Hall’s Reilly Room – is 400, and those eight boxes of donations added up to over 900 pounds of food (1.2 pounds of food per attendee), I’d say this harvest was a resounding success. Not bad for our first, eh? Continue reading