Pulitzer Prize Recipient Rae Armantrout to Speak for Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series on April 9th

Join us on April 9th at 5:00PM in Annenberg Auditorium, Carswell Hall, for a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout. This event is free and open to the campus community and public.

Rae Armantrout has published over eighteen books of poetry, including Versed (Wesleyan University Press, 2009), which received a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award. Other books by Armantrout include Go Figure, Conjure, Wobble, Partly: New and Selected Poems, Itself, Just Saying, and Money Shot. Armantrout is Professor Emerita of Writing at the University of California at San Diego. She has been published in numerous literary anthologies, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry and Scribner’s Best American Poetry, and in magazines such as Harpers, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Scientific American, Chicago Review, and Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Armantrout explores a range of subjects, including science. Amy Catanzano, associate professor of English and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest, will present a short essay, from her latest book, on Armantrout’s poems about physics during the introduction.