The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Writing are pleased to present an evening with award-winning poet Li-Young Lee in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. He will read from his work at 7:30pm on Wednesday, March 18 in Klingenstein Lounge in Campus Center.
The reading is free and open to the public. A question-and-answer period and a book-signing will follow. Books will be on sale and refreshments will be served.
Li-Young Lee is the author of four critically acclaimed books of poetry, his most recent being Behind My Eyes, and the memoir The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received the American Book Award. His earlier collections are Book of My Nights, The City in Which I Love You, and Rose. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Born to Chinese parents in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lee learned early about the loss and exile that would haunt his poems. His great grandfather was China’s first republican President; his father was physician to Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung who fled the country and spent time as a political prisoner before settling in the United States in 1964. Lee now lives in Chicago.
“What characterizes Lee’s poetry,” Gerald Stern has said, “is a certain humility…a willingness to let the sublime enter his field of concentration and take over, a devotion to language, a belief in its holiness.”
Listen to Li-Young Lee read and discuss his poem “A Hymn to Childhood” here.
View the event page here.
For more information or to request special accommodations, contact Eleanor Henderson at 607-274-3324 or ehenderson@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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