Award-Winning Poet Edward Hirsch to Give Reading on Campus

As part of the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Lecture Series, poet Edward Hirsch will give a reading on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. in the Rehm Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Edward Hirsch has published six collections of poetry including For the Sleepwalkers (1981); Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Night Parade (1989); Earthly Measures (1994); On Love (1998) and Lay Back the Darkness (2003). He has also written three prose books, including How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, a national best seller, and The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration. He has received the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and a MacArthur Fellowship. A professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston for 17 years, he is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

This series is organized by Robert Cording, James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Chair in Creative Writing, in the English department.