Award-winning poet Carl Phillips will read at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 22 at the Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center. He will present a second reading of poems at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23 at the CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts at 15 Vernon Street in Hartford. Both readings are free and open to the public. Described as “one of America’s most original, influential, and productive of lyric poets,” Phillips is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, criticism, and translation. According to the Judges’ Citation for the 1998 National Book Awards, “Carl Phillips’s passionate and lyrical poems read like prayers, with a prayer’s hesitations, its desire to be utterly accurate, its occasional flowing outbursts.”
The Wallace Stevens Poetry Program is sponsored by The Hartford, as well as the University of Connecticut’s English Department, Humanities Institute, and Creative Writing Program, all housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Additional support is provided by the UConn Rainbow Center. For more information, please visit our website at http://wallacestevens.uconn.edu/
For more information, contact: Penelope Pelizzon at penelope.pelizzon@uconn.edu