Mark Strand, one of the greats of contemporary poetry, kicks off the Michener Center for Writers‘ spring reading series tonight.
A Pulitzer Prize winner (for his 1999 collection Blizzard of One), Poet Laureate, MacArthur fellow, and more, Strand is, well, kind of a god in the field; that elevated stature is something Deborah Garrison in The New York Times was getting at when she wrote “here are a handful of contemporary poets whom we can consider only by gazing upward. … Mark Strand is undeniably one of those luminaries.”
He’s also published translations, written arts criticism, and edited numerous poetry anthologies, one of which is probably perched on your bookshelf right now (W.W. Norton’s 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, The Best American Poetry 1991, and The Golden Ecco Anthology).
Strand reads tonight (1/26), 7:30pm, at the Avaya Auditorium (SE corner of 24th & Speedway) on the University of Texas campus.
This article appears in January 20 • 2012.
