A reading by acclaimed poet, novelist, and essayist Albert Goldbarth, the only living two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Presented by the Georgia Review and the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts.
Goldbarth has published regularly in The Georgia Review for three decades and has read to Athens audiences several times in recent years. Well-known for his high-volume output and encyclopedic mind, he has has published more than thirty books of poetry and essays as well as a novel. His latest, Ordinary People (2012), was preceded by To Be Read in Five Hundred Years (2009) and The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 (2007). Literary critic Helen Vendler has praised his "enormous curiousity" as well as "his sympathy of souls with the historical personages he resuscitates." Albert Goldbarth is the Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University.
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