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Thursday, October 24, 2002
Contact: Peter Bailley
news@knox.edu
309-341-7715
GALESBURG -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will read from her own works at 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Common Room, Old Main, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. She will give a talk, "Legitimate Danger and the Poem," concerning the poet's role in society, at 12 noon, Sunday, Nov. 10, in the Common Room. The events are free and open to the public.
Graham has published nine collections of poetry including "The Dream of the Unified Field," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Her other books are "Swarm," "The End of Beauty," "Erosion," "Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts," and her most recent, "Never." She has also edited two anthologies, "Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language" in 1996 and "The Best American Poetry of 1990."
Among her many honors are a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. According to David Baker, editor of The Kenyon Review, Graham has "employed the mechanics of narrative, form and strategic inquiry... and fruitfully deployed the diverse systems of philosophy, science and history."
Graham received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1997.
The lecture is sponsored by the Knox College Caxton Club.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 48 states and 40 nations. Knox's "Old Main" is a National Historic Landmark and the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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