visiting poet
Juliana D'Amico
Issue date: 2/7/08 Section: Arts
The Visiting Writers Series of the Department of English will be sponsoring a visit to campus by the poet Dr. Daniel Tobin on Feb. 11 and 12.
Tobin, Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, has authored three critically acclaimed books of poems: "Where the World is Made," "Double Life" and "The Narrows." Tobin's work has won "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Greensboro Review Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Four Way Books will publish his fourth book of poems, "Second Things," in 2009.
His poems have appeared nationally and internationally in such journals as "The Nation," "The New Republic," "The Harvard Review," "Poetry," "The American Scholar," "The Paris Review," "The Southern Review," "The Sewanee Review," "The Hudson Review," "DoubleTake," "The Kenyon Review," "Image," "The Times Literary Supplement" (England) and "Poetry Ireland Review."
Tobin will deliver two public presentations at Hillsdale College. On Monday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium he will be reading from his poetry.
On Feb. 12 at 8 p.m., again in Phillips, he will deliver a lecture entitled "Ancient Salt, American Grains," an examination of formal and free verse poetics. Both events are free and open to the public.
Tobin, Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston, has authored three critically acclaimed books of poems: "Where the World is Made," "Double Life" and "The Narrows." Tobin's work has won "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Greensboro Review Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Four Way Books will publish his fourth book of poems, "Second Things," in 2009.
His poems have appeared nationally and internationally in such journals as "The Nation," "The New Republic," "The Harvard Review," "Poetry," "The American Scholar," "The Paris Review," "The Southern Review," "The Sewanee Review," "The Hudson Review," "DoubleTake," "The Kenyon Review," "Image," "The Times Literary Supplement" (England) and "Poetry Ireland Review."
Tobin will deliver two public presentations at Hillsdale College. On Monday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium he will be reading from his poetry.
On Feb. 12 at 8 p.m., again in Phillips, he will deliver a lecture entitled "Ancient Salt, American Grains," an examination of formal and free verse poetics. Both events are free and open to the public.
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