Visiting Writers Series: Charles Simic
Charles Simic, born in Belgrade in 1938, was the 15th Poet Laureate. Renowned also as an essayist and translator, his most recent books include Dark Things, a translation of Novica Tadic's poems, and Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks. Among his 30 books of poetry, Charon's Cosmology (1977) was nominated for the National Book Award, and Classic Ballroom Dances (1980), won the 1980 di Castagnola Award and the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award. In 1990, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The World Doesn't End. Walking the Black Cat (1996) was nominated for the National Book Award, Jackstraws (1999) was a New York Times Notable Book, and Selected Poems: 1963-2003 was the winner of the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize. One of two poets to receive both the Edgar Allan Poe and the Wallace Stevens Award, Simic twice won the PEN Translation Prize, along with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1983 he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire since 1974.
Note: The location of this event has been moved from Memorial Hall to the University Gallery.
