Monday 23 October 2017, 6.00PM
Please join us for this special poetry event, with celebrated US poet Henri Cole.
Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and has published nine collections of poetry, including Middle Earth (2003), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His awards include the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His most recent collection is Nothing to Declare (2015). A memoir, Orphic Paris, will be published in 2018 in The New York Review of Books.
He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston.
This is a Writers at York event.
Writers at York offers a lively programme of public readings and workshops, and aims to celebrate and explore the work of emerging and established contemporary writers.
Location: Leavis Room (D/L/137), Derwent
Admission: All welcome, no booking required
Email: jt.welsch@york.ac.uk