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CHARLES SIMIC
WALLACE STEVENS POETRY PROGRAM
Tuesday April 6, 2 pm
Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts
and
Wednesday April 7, 8 pm
Konover Auditorium of the Dodd Center, UConn
Sponsored by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.,
& The Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens
Simic, who was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated
to the United States in 1954, is the author of more
than 60 books in the U.S. and abroad,
twenty titles of his own poetry among them,
including That Little Something (2008);
My Noiseless Entourage (2005);
Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004), for
which he received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize;
The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New
Poems (2003); Night Picnic (2001); The Book of
Gods and Devils (2000); and Jackstraws (1999),
which was named a Notable Book of the
Year by the New York Times. His other books of
poetry include Walking the Black Cat (1996),
which was a finalist for the National Book Award;
A Wedding in Hell (1994);
Hotel Insomnia (1992);
The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1990),
for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;
Selected Poems: 1963-1983 (1990);
and Unending Blues (1986).
Simic has also published numerous
translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian,
and Slovenian poetry,
and is the author of several books of essays,
including Orphan Factory. He has edited several
anthologies, including an edition of
The Best American Poetry in 1992.
more info here
UConn Creative Writing Department
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