The University Museum of Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, is pleased to host a reading by nationally acclaimed poets Nancy Willard and Lesle Lewis on February 8, 2007 at 7:30 PM. This special event is organized by the University Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Juniper Initiative. It is in conjunction with the exhibition The Impossible Landscape, which challenges traditional modes of landscape imagery.
Nancy Willard is the author of numerous books of poetry including In The Saltmash and Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey and two novels, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in both fiction and poetry, and her book A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers was awarded the Newbery Medal. Her most recent children's books areCinderella's Dress and Sweep Dreams. She teaches in the English department at Vassar College and lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Lesle Lewis is the author of Landscapes I & II and Small Boat, which won the 2002 Iowa Poetry Prize. Many of her poems have appeared in prestigious journals including: Pleiades, American Letters and Commentary, Northern New England Review, Old Crow, Green Mountains Review, Barrow Street, Mudfish, Slope, LIT, Sentence, and Pool. She teaches literature and writing at Landmark College in Vermont and lives in New Hampshire.
