Ithaca College

The School of Humanities & Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz, who will launch a new season of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series this Tuesday at 7:30pm in Clark Lounge, Egbert Hall. The reading is free and open to everyone.

Schultz is the author of several collections of poetry, including Like Wings (1978), recipient of an American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award as well as a National Book Award nomination, and Deep Within the Ravine (1984), recipient of The Academy of American Poets Lamont Prize. His most recent collection, Failure (2007), won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.

His work has been published in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Slate, among other magazines. He is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, as well as the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine. He is also the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.

Of Schultz's work, fellow poet Tony Hoagland says, “Philip Schultz’s poems have long since earned their own place in American poetry. His stylistic trademarks are his great emotional directness and his intelligent haranguing—of god, the reader, and himself. He is one of the least affected of American poets, and one of the fiercest.”

In addition to giving a reading, Schultz will also teach a master class to Ithaca College students. For more information on the reading, contact Jack Wang at wang@ithaca.edu.

Distinguished Visiting Writers Series Website