Visiting Writers Series: Franz Wright
The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites you to a poetry reading by Franz Wright. For more than 40 years, the VWS has brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for public readings of new work.
Franz Wright was born in Vienna in 1953. During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California. Wright's most recent collections of poetry include Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), which received a Pulitzer Prize; The Beforelife (2001); Ill Lit: New and Selected Poems (1998); Rorschach Test (1995); The Night World and the Word Night (1993); and Midnight Postscript (1993). He has also translated poems by René Char, Erica Pedretti, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Wright has received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for Poets and Writers and the Juniper Initiative, the UMass Arts Council, the UMass Alumni Association, the Vice Provost of Research, the English Department, and the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.
All events are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.