Cuisle 2009 Brochure - Cuisle Poetry Festival

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Fri 16th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Robert Hass
Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley,
California, where he teaches at the University of California.
A MacArthur Fellow, a two-time winner of the National
Book Critics Circle Award and the winner, in 2008, of the
National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,
he has published poems, literary essays and translations.
He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995
to 1997, during which time he organised a campaign
against illiteracy and founded River of Words, an
organization that promotes environmental and arts
education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center
for the Book. He believes that poets, especially, need to pay
constant attention to the interaction of mind and
environment.
Robert Hass has published the following collections of
poetry: Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, Sun Under
Wood, and Time and Materials, as well as a book of essays
on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. He has translated
many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet,
Czeslaw Milosz, and edited Selected Poems 1954-1986 by
Thomas Tranströmer, and The Essential Haiku: Versions of
Basho, Buson, and Issa.
In spring 2010, Ecco Press will publish The Apple Trees at
Olema: Selected Poems & Essays, 1985-2009, and a
collection of selected essays.
Fri 16th Oct
8pm
Daghdha Space
Donald Hall
Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He began
writing as an adolescent and had his first work published at the age
of sixteen. He has published numerous books of poetry, most
recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems
1946-2006 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and
Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third
anniversary of his wife and fellow poet Jane Kenyon's death from
leukemia. Other notable collections include The One Day (1988),
which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination; The Happy Man
(1986), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and Exiles and
Marriages (1955), which was the Academy's Lamont Poetry
Selection for 1956.
In a review of Hall's recent Selected Poems, Billy Collins wrote in
the Washington Post: “Hall has long been placed in the Frostian
tradition of the plainspoken rural poet... It is a kind of simplicity that
succeeds in engaging the reader in the first few lines.”
Besides poetry, Donald Hall has written books on baseball, the
sculptor Henry Moore, and the poet Marianne Moore. He is also the
author of several children's books and a number of autobiographical
works. He has edited more than two dozen textbooks and
anthologies, and served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from
1953 to 1962.
His honors include the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost
Silver Medal, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New
Hampshire Writers and Publisher Project, and the Ruth Lilly Prize for
Poetry. In June 2006, Hall was appointed the Library of Congress's
fourteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
In December 1993 he and Jane Kenyon were the subject of an
Emmy Award winning Bill Moyers documentary, "A Life Together."
He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.
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