Award-winning poet, essayist and translator Lyn Hejinian will visit Kansas University next month to read her works and deliver the English department’s John F. Eberhardt Lecture, titled “Outside Poetry.”

Hejinian, an English professor at the University of California-Berkeley, has produced dozens of books in a wide variety of genres. She edited “The Best American Poetry 2004” and is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking experimental autobiography, “My Life,” and for the widely influential essay “The Rejection of Closure.” In the fall of 2000, she was elected the 66th Fellow of the Academy of American Poets, and in 2006, a Chancellor of the Academy. She has received numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.

The reading will take place at 4 p.m. March 6 at the Spencer Museum of Art. “Outside Poetry” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. the same day at Kansas Union’s Alderson Auditorium.