2007
February 2007
Thursday 1 February 2007
Thu 1 Feb, 7 pm. 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, 10128. 212-415-5500. 92nd Street Y - [email][events]
Strong Is Your Hold: An 80th Birthday Tribute to Galway Kinnell Robert Bly, E. L. Doctorow, Mark Doty, Cornelius Eady, Edward Hirsch, Marie Howe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Anne Marie Macari, Sharon Olds, Grace Paley, Gerald Stern and C.K. Williams Friends and fellow writers join the beloved bard Galway Kinnell in a reading that honors his profound impact on generations of poets. Galway Kinnell’s collections include Strong Is Your Hold and Selected Poems, for which he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Presented by Poets House in conjunction with Blue Flower Arts, Cooper Union, Houghton Mifflin, NYU Creative Writing Program and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem, Poetry Society of America and Poets & Writers.
Date & Time: Thu, Feb 1, 2007, 7:00pm
Location: The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 4 Cooper Square
Code: NN0TU02-01