A Celebration of Jean Valentine: A Symposium of the Work of Jean Valentine

The Drew University's Master of Fine Arts in Poetry & Poetry in Translation is proud to announce a series of events in celebration of career of renowned poet Jean Valentine.  As part of the celebration, Aracelis Girmay, Michael Waters, and Alicia Ostriker will be conducting a symposium of her work.  The symposium will be held at 3:30 pm on Saturday, June 28, 2014 in Crawford Hall, which is located in the Eninger Center at Drew University.

Thy symposium is free and open to the public. Later in the evening, at 7:30 pm, Jean will be holding a poetry reading, which will also be held in Crawford Hall and free and open to the public.

Please join us as we celebrate this illustrious poet.

Jean Valentine was the State Poet of New York from 2008-2010.  She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965.  Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass from Copper Canyon Press.  Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.  She was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets in 2010, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. Valentine has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, as well as The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  She is Distinguished Poet-in-Residence for Drew University's MFA in Poetry & Poetry in Translation.

A map of Drew University's campus is available here: http://www.drew.edu/map/#location/center

If you are interested in the Master of Fine Arts in Poetry & Poetry in Translation, please visit our website at http://www.drew.edu/graduate/academics/poetry-mfa where you can also view details of the complete series of events that are part of the Celebration of Jean Valentine as well as the June Poetry Reading Series.