Visiting Writers Series at UMass Amherst Hosts Reading By Poet James Tate

April 28, 2008

Contact:

Christopher DeWeese 360/531-0024

AMHERST, Mass. – The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting a poetry reading by James Tate on Thursday, May 8, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

For more than 40 years, the Visiting Writers Series has brought outstanding poets and writers to UMass Amherst for public readings of new work.

Tate, who is a professor of English at UMass Amherst, is the author of several collections of poems, including “Return to the City of White Donkeys,” “The Worshipful Company of Fletchers” (1994), which won the National Book Award; “Selected Poems” (1991), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award for Poetry; and “The Lost Pilot,” which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His awards include a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His latest book of poetry, “The Ghost Soldiers,” was recently released by Ecco.

The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. All Visiting Writers Series events are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and the English Department, and made possible in part by grants from the Amherst Arts Council, UMass Arts Council and the UMass Amherst Alumni Association.

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