April 22, 2004
Princeton’s C.K. Williams to present reading
C.K. Williams, who teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton, will present the annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 6, in 130 Kane, also called Roethke Auditorium.
Williams’ volume of poetry, Repair (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1987 another volume of his work, Flesh and Blood, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Other publications include A Dream of Mind (1992), and The Vigil (1996). Lies (1969), I am the Bitter Name (1972), With Ignorance (1977), and Tar (1983), are collected in Poems: 1963-1983 (1988). Williams is also the author of three works in translation: Sophocles’ Women of Trachis (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978), The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and The Bacchae of Euripides (1990).
Willliams has received numerous awards and honors, including the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine, the PEN/Voelker Career Achievement in Poetry Award, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. He has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Roethke reading is sponsored by the English Department. It is free and open to the public.
