Recent Visitors
Lucille Clifton
Award-winning poet and author
Lucille Clifton visited Alma College on March 14th, 2000 to give a
reading of her poetry from her collections The Terrible Stories and Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999.
Ms. Clifton's honors include an Emmy Award from the American Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences, a Lannan Literary Award, the Shelley
Memorial Award, and the YM-YWHA Poetry Center Discovery Award. In
1999 she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and
has served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland. She is
currently Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College
of Maryland.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye visited Alma
College on February 3rd, 2003 to read and discuss her works with
students, faculty, and guests. Ms. Nye is known for her essays
and anthologies of the Middle East as well as her children's books and
poetry. Her prize-winning works include Different Ways to Pray, Hugging the Jukebox, and This Same Sky.
Ms. Nye has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets,
four Pushcart Prizes, and numerous awards for her children's
literature including two Jane Addams Children's Book Awards and the
Isabella Garnder Poetry Award in 2005 for You and Yours. She is a regular columnist for Organica and poetry editor for The Texas Observer.
W. S. Merwin
Pulitzer Prize winning poet,
translator and environmental activist W. S. Merwin visited Alma College
on October 30th, 2003 to deliver a reading of his works. During
his five decade career Mr. Merwin has become one of America's most
celebrated and widely read poets. His works include The Drunk in the Furnace, The Moving Target, The LIce, Flower & Hand, The Compass Flower, Opening the Hand, Travels, The Vixen, Unframed Originals, and The Folding Cliffs, as well Pulitzer Prize winner The Carrier of Ladders. His recent works include The Mays of Vantedor, The River Sound, and The Pupil, as well as a new translation of Dante's Purgatorio.
In 2004 Mr. Merwin received the prestigious Lannan Lifetime Achievement
Award, and in 2005 he was honored as laureate of the Struga Poetry
Evenings Festival in Macedonia, receiving the Golden Wreath
Award.
Sven Birkerts
The highly regarded critic and writer Sven Birkerts presented a
reading/talk at the library on Thursday, October 13, at 8:00 pm. The
theme of his presentation was "Looking TheTechnology Gift Horse InThe
Mouth." His most recent book is MY SKY BLUE TRADES.
Posted: Sun, September 18th, 2005 at 1:02PM
