The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present State Poet of New York (2008-2010) Jean Valentine as part of this semester's Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. She will read from her work on Tuesday, March 17, in Emerson Suite A, Phillips Hall. The lecture, which takes place at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.
Jean Valentine is the author of 11 volumes of poetry, including Dream Barker, which won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1965. Her collection Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for poetry. Lucy, her new chapbook, pays homage to the three-million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid.
Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. She has a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bunting Institute, and the Rockfeller Foundation, as well as the Maurice English Prize, the Teasdale Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize in 2000.
In addition to giving a reading, Valentine will share in teaching a master class in writing to Ithaca College students. For more information, visit the DVW website or contact Jack Wang (607-274-3493, wang@ithaca.edu).
Distinguished Visiting Writers Series Webpage
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20090313095149732