Hamilton – Poet C.K. Williams will give a reading of his work on Thursday, January 28 as part of the 51·çÁ÷ Poetry Reading Series. The reading will take place in the Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall) at 4:30 p.m.
Williams, who lives in Paris, France, is author of numerous books of poems including The Vigil, which was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, as well as Gratitude; Chair et Sang; A Dream of Mind; Helen; Flesh and Blood, which was also a finalist for a Pulitzer; The Lark, The Thrush, The Starling; Tar; With Ignorance; I am the Bitter Name; Lies; and his earliest, A Day for Anne Frank, among others.
He has done several translations and edited The Selected and Last Poems of Paul Zweig as well as The Essential Gerard Manley Hopkins. In addition, Williams has published selected essays as well as Negative, which is a song cycle, served as script consultant for the David Lynch films The Grandmother and Eraserhead, and wrote the narrative for Joseph Strick’s film Criminals. Another book of Williams’ poetry, Repair, is forthcoming in April of 1999.
Recipient of many honors, Williams most recently won the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and the Pen/Voelker Career Achievement Award in Poetry. In addition, he has held Woodrow Wilson-Lila Wallace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim fellowships and has received numerous writers’ prizes and awards including the Pushcart Press Prize, several National Book Critics Circle Awards for Poetry, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award and many others.
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