Wayland Free Public Library
Extending to the people of Wayland a welcoming invitation to rediscover the joy of reading poems with the hope of inspiring a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.
—2013 Wayland Reads Committee
Our theme for 2013 is
WAYLAND READS POETRY!
With special appearances by poets:
ROBERT PINSKY, DAVID FERRY, GAIL MAZUR, JILL MCDONOUGH, DAVID RIVARD & JANET WONG
ROBERT PINSKY
Former Poet Laureate of the United States
Distinguished BU professor
March 24, 2013
4pm
Wayland Middle School Auditorium
Robert Pinsky's long list of honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, both the William Carlos Williams Award and the Shelley Memorial prize from the Poetry Society of America, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate. His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism, and such national enthusiasm in response, that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. His tenure was marked by ambitious efforts to prove the power of poetry as a meaningful and integral part of American life. Learn more about Professor Pinsky's national Favorite Poem Project.
DAVID FERRY
Winner of 2012 National Book Award
Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College
April 14, 2013
3pm
Wayland Library
Raytheon Room
In addition to the National Book Award for Poetry, David Ferry has been awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, and was a finalist for the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and the New Yorker Book Award. He is known for his translations as well as for his original poetry. In recognizing him with the 2012 National Book Award for Bewilderment, the committee commented on the "...passionate nature and originality of Ferry's prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away...making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century."
GAIL MAZUR
Distinguished Writer in Residence,
Emerson College
April 14, 2013
3pm
Wayland Library
Raytheon Room
A graduate of Smith College, Mazur has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Her work has been recognized with a Massachusetts Book Award, and she has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. She has published six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Figures in a Landscape published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011.
JILL MCDONOUGH
Winner of the Pushcart Prize
Sunday, April 21
3pm
Wayland Public Library Raytheon Room
Pushcart Prize winner Jill McDonough's first book of poems, Habeas Corpus, was published by Salt in 2008. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford's Stegner program, she has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education program since 1999. She directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center's Online Writing Workshops. She is also affiliated with the Harvard Extension School, Stanford's Online Writer's Studio, UMass-Boston, and Grub Street, Inc. Jill's work appears in Slate, The Nation, and The Threepenny Review, and is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2011.
DAVID RIVARD
NEA & Guggenheim Fellow
Winner of the James Laughlin Prize
Former Poetry Editor, Harvard Review
Sunday, April 21
3pm
Wayland Public Library Raytheon Room
Rivard is the author of five published collections of poetry, including Wise Poison, which won the 1996 James Laughlin Award and Torque (1987), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was published by the Pitt Poetry Series. Rivard's honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from The American Poetry Review, the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the he Folger Shakespeare Library, a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the Massachusetts Arts Foundation and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has also received the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Pushcart Prize. He was the Poetry Editor at the Harvard Review from 1995-2000 and is a Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.
JANET WONG
Acclaimed Children's Poet
Wednesday, April 24
7pm
Wayland Public Library Raytheon Room
Janet Wong will conduct a poetry workshop for kids 7 and up at the library. A graduate of Yale Law School, Janet left a successful career as an attorney to pursue a literary career. Her poems and stories have been featured in many textbooks and anthologies, and also in some more unusual venues (on a car-talk radio show, on subway and bus posters, and on the Hallmark Channel. And, in April 2003, Janet was one of five children's authors invited to read at The White House Easter Egg Roll. Janet and her books have received numerous awards and honors, such as the International Reading Association's "Celebrate Literacy Award" for exemplary service in the promotion of literacy, and the prestigious Stone Center Recognition of Merit, given by the Claremont Graduate School. Janet also has been appointed to two terms on the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Teachers of English.
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