Visiting Writers Series: Alice Notley
Alice Notley's most recent books are Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems and In the Pines. She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry. Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001, she received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelly Memorial Award. She edited and wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets (Penguin, 2000).
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 are made possible in part by grants from the Amherst Arts Council, UMass Arts Council, and UMass Alumni Association.