October 24, 2005
Events at Clark University Mark the 100th birthday of Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz
WORCESTER, Mass. - Clark University and the Worcester County Poetry Association will honor the 100th birthday of Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz with events at Clark on Wednesday, Nov. 2; Friday, Nov. 4; and Saturday, Nov. 5.
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, the winners of the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Student Poetry Contest will read from their original poetry in the Grace Conference Room in Clark University's Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street, at 7 p.m.
On Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5, Clark will host a free two-day symposium examining the life and poetry of Kunitz. Scholars and poets from New England and New York will participate, including:
Dr. Robert Cording, professor of English and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross;
Jonathan Blake, instructor, Worcester State College; Cleopatra
Mathis, director of the Creative Writing Program at Dartmouth College; Dr. B. Eugene
McCarthy, professor of English - emeritus, College of the Holy Cross; Dr. Laura Jehn
Menides, professor of English - emeritus, WPI; Dr. Parker Towle, Dartmouth Medical School;
Dr. Thomas Travisano, professor of English, Hartwick College; Dr. Michael
True, professor of English - emeritus, Assumption College. For a complete schedule of events and speaker biographies, please visit .
“Clark University is honored to play a lead role in the 100th birthday celebration of Stanley Kunitz, a Worcester native and one of America’s distinguished past Poet Laureates,” said Jay Elliott, professor of English at Clark and chair of the Symposium Committee. “Acknowledging his influence on modern American poetry, the sessions at Clark will be devoted to the theme ‘The Poet as Mentor.’”
These events are sponsored by the Office of the President, the Higgins School of Humanities, and the English Department at Clark. They are free and open to the public. These events are offered as part of the Poetry Harvest Festival 2005 . Carle Johnson, a 1957 graduate of Clark, serves as the executive director of the Worcester County Poetry Association.
Pre-registration for the symposium is encouraged and can be handled by emailing wcpaboard@yahoo.com .
Clark was the first university to present Stanley Kunitz with an honorary doctor of letters degree in 1961.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
www.clarku.edu
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