The Poetry Reading Series presents Paul Breslin, Glyn Maxwell and Karl Kirchwey

The Boston Playwright’s Theatre Paul Breslin, Professor Emeritus of English, Northwestern University, is author of The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry since the Fifties; You Are Here; Nobody’s Nation: Reading Derek Walcott; and Between My Eye and the Light, and is the translator with Rachel Ney, The Tragedy of King Christophe. In 2005, Breslin co-edited a special Derek Walcott issue of Callaloo with Robert Hamner, and annotated La Tragédie du roi Christophe for Aimé Césaire: Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours: édition critique with A James Arnold under Arnold’s general editorship. Glyn Maxwell studied English at Oxford University and both poetry and theatre with Derek Walcott at Boston University. His books include Out of the Rain and The Breakage, which was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and the Forward Poetry Prizes. Most recently, he is the author of Pluto; One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems; Hide Now, which was short-listed for both the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Forward Poetry Prize; The Nerve, which won the 2004 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Time’s Fool: A Tale in Verse, selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995. Maxwell also published On Poetry, a critical guidebook and edited The Poetry of Derek Walcott: 1948-2013. Karl Kirchwey is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Happiness of This World: Poetry and Prose (2007) and The Engrafted Word (1998), a New York Times Notable Book. Kirchwey has been awarded the Rome Prize as well as grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the director of the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center from 1987 to 2000 and now directs the Creative Writing program at BU.

When 7:00 pm on Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Location The Boston Playwright’s Theatre
Contact Name Meg Tyle
Contact Email mtyler@bu.edu
Fees Free
Speakers Paul Breslin, Glyn Maxwell, Karl Kirchwey