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See Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery on  October 21
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
by: S. Kilduff

John Ashbery is described by William Watkin in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets & Poetry as “…one of the leading postwar poets in English and the most famous member of the ‘New York School’ of poets…” This important American writer will read selections from his work for the Poetry-in-the-Round Series on October 21 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Science and Technology Center.  Free admission.

Ashbery’s acclaimed works include Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mr. Ashbery served as art critic for New York Magazine and Newsweek and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His awards and prizes include two Guggenheim Fellowships and he was a MacArthur fellow from 1985-1990.

This reading is made possible though the generosity of the late publisher, Mr. Robert Giroux of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

The Poetry-in-the-Round Series is part of the Seton Hall University Arts Council.  The full schedule of Poetry-in-the-Round readings or other Arts Council events can be found at the Arts Council website.

For more information please contact:
John Wargacki
(973) 761-5105
John.wargacki@shu.edu