READING: Anthony Hecht, FAAR'51, RAAR'69

Tuesday 28 October
Lecture Room - 6pm

Poet, Washington, DC

Anthony Hecht, poet, critic and translator, has won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollinger Prize and the Librex-Guggenheim Eugenio Montale Award. He has been Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Trustee of the American Academy in Rome and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His most recent books are The Darkness and the Light (2002) and Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (2003).

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