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.
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Pywacket (anonymous) says…
I'm not familiar with this poet, but this article revived a wonderful memory. The last time I was ever in the old Hoch Auditorium before it burned down was to hear an exceptional poet--someone whose work I had long enjoyed and whom I had long admired.
I'm not sure what year that was (late 80s), but I will never forget hearing Gwendolyn Brooks recite, "We Real Cool" and other poems, and talk about her life and times in a packed auditorium of rapt students--not to mention, profs & other adults--who recognized the honor of having a national treasure share some of her time with us.
A few short years later, Hoch was gone. In 2000, we Ms Brooks passed on. Go and appreciate the poets, prose writers, and other distinguished speakers while you can, students (and others!). The experience will last you a long time.