October 15th, 6pm.
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission
Now in its 55th year, Poetry Day is one of the oldest and most distinguished reading series in the country. Inaugurated by Robert Frost, Poetry Day has featured such poets as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Adrienne Rich.
C.D. Wright, one of America’s most compelling and idiosyncratic poets, was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Her writing has been described as experimental, Southern, socially conscious, and elliptical. She has published a dozen collections, most recently, Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), which won the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. She has also published several book-length poems, including the critically acclaimed Deepstep Come Shining (1998). She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and the Robert Creeley Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor at Brown University and lives outside of Providence, Rhode Island. A booksigning follows.
Co-sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and The Art Institute of Chicago
