March 25, 7:00 p.m.

"No American poet writes better than Louise Glück; perhaps none can lead us so deeply into out own natures." --New York Times Book Review

"There are few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Glück ranks at the top of the list." -The Washington Post

By a broad consensus one of the finest poets writing in America today, Louise Glück has appropriately garnered the most prestigious of American literary awards: the Pulitzer Prize (for The Wild Iris, 1993), the National Book Critics Circle Award (for The Triumph of Achilles, 1985), the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award, among others. In The Wild Iris, as in The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, and the more recent Meadowlands (1996), she has maintained the stark and startling tone which distinguishes her work. Her emotional intensity, her simplicity of expression, and her formal seriousness combine in some of the most moving poetry of the late century. At Seton Hall, she will read from her latest (March 1999) book Vita Nova.
Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Vermont. In addition to her seven volumes of poetry, she is the author of a book of essays entitled Proofs and Theories, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her early books are collected in the volume titled The First Four Books of Poems.