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Redmond Bernhold | Friday, November 11, 2022
Natasha Trethewey, two-term 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, gave a poetry reading focused on her identity and inspiration as a poet Wednesday night for the Notre Dame community. “I think of myself as an elegiac poet as well as a poet concerned with remembrance and memorialization with the intersections between
Maria Leontaras and Maeve Filbin | Thursday, September 6, 2018
Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the U.S., spoke at the annual Saint Mary’s Christian Culture Lecture on Wednesday night. The acclaimed writer shared her beliefs on the connections between poetry and faith, read her work and explained the Christian undertones of her writings. Smith said faith and poetry provide an opportunity for
Jordan Cockrum | Thursday, September 6, 2018
In much of her poetry, current Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith allows her writing to be driven by her answers to questions such as, “Why do I care about [this topic]?” It is through this journey of sitting with a single question or phase that she finds other feelings and connections
Devon Harford | Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Institute for Latino Studies and the Office of the President presented a poetry reading and moderated question-and-answer session with Juan Felipe Herrera, poet laureate of the United States, in DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night. Herrera was appointed a national poet laureate by the Library of Congress in 2015 and served as poet laureate
Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Juan Felipe Herrera, poet laureate of the United States, will visit Notre Dame on Oct. 5 and 6, according to a University press release. Herrera was appointed the first Latino poet laureate in the U.S. in 2015, the country’s highest honor in poetry, according to the release. He is the author of 28 books of
Dan DeToro | Tuesday, November 4, 2014
The Department of English’s inaugural Ernest Sandeen Memorial Reading will bring together both established and up-and-coming talent Wednesday in McKenna Hall at 7:30 p.m. The reading will honor Sandeen, a former Notre Dame faculty member, and will feature U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer prize-winner Philip Levine and University of Illinois at Chicago professor Christina Pugh. In keeping with Sandeen’s legacy