Nobel Prize Winning Poet and Playwright Derek Walcott Continues Hartwick Writers Series
Oneonta, NY, February 16, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Nobel Prize Laureate in Poetry Derek Walcott will read from his work at Hartwick College on Monday, March 11, 2013. He appears as part of the 2012-13 series of readings "Four Writers Who Changed the World," which includes four award-winning writers renowned in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Walcott's lecture is open to the public free of charge, and will be held at 8 p.m. in the Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre on the Hartwick College campus.
Walcott has close ties to Hartwick, having visited the campus more than 25 times beginning in 1979. The College awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1990 in recognition of his many contributions, which includes his writing the play The Ghost Dance for Hartwick College's Cardboard Alley Players in 1989.
Walcott has published 14 collections of poetry, eight collections of plays, and a book of essays. His poetry includes the recent volume White Egrets (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), as well asSelected Poems (2007), The Prodigal (2004), and Tiepolo's Hound (2000). Walcott's plays have been produced throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. The Royal Shakespeare Company, the University of Essex (U.K.) and Hartwick College have all commissioned plays. Among them are the forthcoming Starry Night (2013), The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1992), The Joker of Seville (1978), and Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (1970).
In addition to his Nobel Prize, Walcott has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. He is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of Poetry at Essex University.
"Walcott for 35 years has brought to Oneonta audiences his brilliant poetry that gives us our language at its most musical and powerful," said Hartwick College Professor of English Dr. Robert Bensen, series coordinator. "His readings enchant the audience and memorably transform the occasion."
Hartwick College has long been committed to fostering excellence in writing. Presented by The NEH Visiting Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and by the Division of Arts & Humanities, all readings in this series are free of charge and the community is encouraged to attend.
A reception and book-signing will follow Walcott's reading. Copies of his works are available for purchase now and prior to the reading at the Hartwick College Barnes & Nobel Bookstore on campus.
Presenters in the remainder of the series include:
Thursday, April 18, 2013: Novelist and Essayist Marilynne Robinson. Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Hemingway Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award; essayist and novelist, author of When I Was a Child, I Read Books; Gilead, Housekeeping, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind.
For more information on Walcott, visit www.poetryfoundation.org or the Times Topics section of the New York Times Online. For additional information on the series, contact Bensen at 607-431-4902 or bensenr@hartwick.edu.
Hartwick College is a private liberal arts and sciences college of 1,500 students, located in Oneonta, NY, in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Hartwick's expansive curriculum emphasizes an experiential approach to the liberal arts. Through personalized teaching, collaborative research, a distinctive January Term, a wide range of internships, and vast study-abroad opportunities, Hartwick ensures that students are prepared for not just their first jobs, but for the world ahead. A Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program and strong financial aid and scholarship offerings keep a Hartwick education affordable.
Contact: Valerie Capullo
E-mail: capullov@hartwick.edu
Phone: 607-431-4031
Walcott's lecture is open to the public free of charge, and will be held at 8 p.m. in the Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre on the Hartwick College campus.
Walcott has close ties to Hartwick, having visited the campus more than 25 times beginning in 1979. The College awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1990 in recognition of his many contributions, which includes his writing the play The Ghost Dance for Hartwick College's Cardboard Alley Players in 1989.
Walcott has published 14 collections of poetry, eight collections of plays, and a book of essays. His poetry includes the recent volume White Egrets (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), as well asSelected Poems (2007), The Prodigal (2004), and Tiepolo's Hound (2000). Walcott's plays have been produced throughout the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. The Royal Shakespeare Company, the University of Essex (U.K.) and Hartwick College have all commissioned plays. Among them are the forthcoming Starry Night (2013), The Odyssey: A Stage Version (1992), The Joker of Seville (1978), and Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (1970).
In addition to his Nobel Prize, Walcott has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry. He is an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Professor of Poetry at Essex University.
"Walcott for 35 years has brought to Oneonta audiences his brilliant poetry that gives us our language at its most musical and powerful," said Hartwick College Professor of English Dr. Robert Bensen, series coordinator. "His readings enchant the audience and memorably transform the occasion."
Hartwick College has long been committed to fostering excellence in writing. Presented by The NEH Visiting Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities and by the Division of Arts & Humanities, all readings in this series are free of charge and the community is encouraged to attend.
A reception and book-signing will follow Walcott's reading. Copies of his works are available for purchase now and prior to the reading at the Hartwick College Barnes & Nobel Bookstore on campus.
Presenters in the remainder of the series include:
Thursday, April 18, 2013: Novelist and Essayist Marilynne Robinson. Pulitzer Prize, PEN/Hemingway Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award; essayist and novelist, author of When I Was a Child, I Read Books; Gilead, Housekeeping, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind.
For more information on Walcott, visit www.poetryfoundation.org or the Times Topics section of the New York Times Online. For additional information on the series, contact Bensen at 607-431-4902 or bensenr@hartwick.edu.
Hartwick College is a private liberal arts and sciences college of 1,500 students, located in Oneonta, NY, in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains. Hartwick's expansive curriculum emphasizes an experiential approach to the liberal arts. Through personalized teaching, collaborative research, a distinctive January Term, a wide range of internships, and vast study-abroad opportunities, Hartwick ensures that students are prepared for not just their first jobs, but for the world ahead. A Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program and strong financial aid and scholarship offerings keep a Hartwick education affordable.
Contact: Valerie Capullo
E-mail: capullov@hartwick.edu
Phone: 607-431-4031
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607-431-4031
www.hartwick.edu
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607-431-4031
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