Elizabethtown College Bowers Writers House presents University of Tennessee at Chattanooga National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor Richard Jackson. Dr. Jackson, who teaches creative writing and poetry in UTC's interdisciplinary honors program and writing seminars at Vermont College, will read from his collected works at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in Bowers Writers House.
Jackson is the author of numerous books of poems including Resonance and Ultimate Voyage: The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (translation), which came out this year.
Other recent books include Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (2004) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (2003). His work has been translated into 15 languages and has appeared in The Best American Poems, among other collections.
Jackson is editor of two anthologies of Slovene poetry, as well as the journal Poetry Miscellany. In addition to dozens of essays and reviews that have appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, Contemporary Literature, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, he is the author of Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (Agee Prize) and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (Choice Award).
Jackson was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal by the President of Slovenia for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans and was named a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, NEA Fellow, NEH Fellow, and has lectured and given readings at dozens of universities and conferences. He leads a group of writing students to Europe each May.
Founded this spring, Bowers Writers House at Elizabethtown College, 840 College Hill Lane in Elizabethtown, is an interdisciplinary venue for expression, study, presentation and performance. Created to promote and support a culture of creative curiosity, Bowers Writers House brings to Elizabethtown a new sense of excitement and enthusiasm for intellectual diversity. From dramatic readings to musical performances to interactive panels, the programs offer a dynamic variety of enjoyable and formative experiences.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Website: http://www.etown.edu/
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