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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a memorial reading to celebrate the life and
  poetry of Louise Glück\, co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program an
 d the Stanford Humanities Center.\n\nThis event will be hybrid (Zoom or in
  person) and is open to Stanford affiliates & the general public. Zoom lin
 k below. In person seating is limited. Registration is encouraged. Registe
 r here\n\nClick the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://stanford.zoom
 .us/j/96978590924?pwd=dlhwZUZpZ0Rtclptd2tGb2dSNXZQdz09\nPasscode: 743310\n
 \n____\n\nOpening & Closing Remarks\n\nNicholas Jenkins\, Co-Director of C
 reative Writing Program\n\nReadings\n\n"Song" - Nicholas Jenkins\n\n"A Sha
 rply Worded Silence" - A. Van Jordan\, Humanities and Sciences Professor\,
  Professor of English and of African and African American Studies\, Co-Dir
 ector of Creative Writing Program\n\n"Midnight" - Molly Antopol\, Assistan
 t Professor of English\n\n"Crossroads" - Nancy Mohr\, Poet\n\n"Vita Nova" 
 - William Brewer\, Jones Lecturer\n\n"Aboriginal Landscape" - Jackson Holb
 ert\, Jones Lecturer\n\n"October" - Madeleine Cravens\, Stegner Fellow in 
 Poetry\n\n____\n\nLouise Glück was one of America’s most honored contem
 porary poets. In 2020\, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for
  her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual e
 xistence universal."\n\nWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\, Glück is a former 
 Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of a dozen widely acclai
 med books. Stephen Dobyns\, writing in the New York Times Book Review\, sa
 id “no American poet writes better than Louise Glück\, perhaps none can
  lead us so deeply into our own nature.” Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Ha
 ss has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets n
 ow writing.” Her work is noted for its emotional intensity and technical
  precision\; her language\, staunchly straightforward\, is clear and refin
 ed\, so much so one does "not see the intervening fathoms.” Glück's con
 siderable accomplishments as a poet are apparent in the volume Poems: 1962
 -2012 (2012)\, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and Faithful a
 nd Virtuous Night (2014)\, which won the 2014 National Book Award for Poet
 ry.\n\nFollowing thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays\, 
 Glück’s last book was Marigold and Rose: A Fiction (2022)\, which was h
 ailed as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New Yorker and The Guard
 ian (UK) and considered a “small miracle of a book\, unlike anything [sh
 e] has written.” Other books include Winter Recipes from the Collective 
 (2021)\, which was recognized as NPR Best Book of the Year\, Financial Tim
 es Books of the Year\, and New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of
  the Year\; A Village Life (2009)\, which was shortlisted for the Internat
 ional Griffin Poetry Prize\; and Averno (2006)\, which was nominated for t
 he National Book Award and won the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship /PEN New E
 ngland Award.\n\nIn addition to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Criti
 cs Circle Award\, Glück received many honors. In 2001\, she was awarded t
 he Bollingen Prize\, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement. I
 n 2003\, she was named the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets\, a 
 position she held until 2010. Glück was given the Wallace Stevens Award i
 n 2008 for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry\,” and
  in 2015\, she received the National Humanities Medal from the National En
 dowment for the Humanities. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary A
 ward for Poetry\, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize\, the MIT Anniversary Med
 al\, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and L
 etters\, a distinction that is given every six years and is one of America
 n culture’s highest honors. Glück received fellowships from the Guggenh
 eim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the National Endowment for the Ar
 ts. In 2020\, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.\n\nGlück was
  a Rosenkranz Writer-in-Residence at Yale University. She was elected a Ch
 ancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1999-2005\, and she was a m
 ember of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. At Stanfo
 rd University\, Glück was the Mohr Visiting Poet for the Creative Writing
  Program six times\, and she taught workshops for five poetry cohorts in t
 he Wallace Stegner Fellowship from 2012-2023. During the 2022-2023 academi
 c year\, Glück served on the faculty as the Denning Family Professor in t
 he Arts.
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LOCATION:Humanities Center\, Levinthal Hall
SUMMARY:Louise Glück Memorial Reading
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