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A Celebration of Poet Jean Valentine: An Interview of Jean Valentine with Anne Marie Macari

A Celebration of Poet Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine was the State Poet of New York from 2008-2010. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry is Break the Glass from Copper Canyon Press. Door  in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003 was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. She was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets in2010, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. She is Distinguished Poet-in-Residence for Drew University’s MFA in Poetry & Poetry in Translation.

Sun., June 22
Jean Valentine reading prior to NJ Symphony Orchestra
Giralda Farms Music & Arts Festival (Festival fees apply)
Gates open at 4PM

Fri., June 27
An Interview of Jean Valentine with Anne Marie Macari

Crawford Hall
3:30-5:00 p.m.

Sat., June 28
A Symposium on the Work of Jean Valentine with Aracelis Girmay, Michael Waters, and Alicia Ostriker
Crawford Hall, Ehinger Center
3:30-5:00 p.m.

Poetry Reading by Jean Valentine
Crawford Hall, Ehinger Center
7:30 p.m.

A map of Drew University's campus is available here: http://www.drew.edu/map/#location/center.

If you are interested in the Master of Fine Arts in Poetry & Poetry in Translation, please visit our website at http://www.drew.edu/graduate/academics/poetry-mfa where you can also view details of the complete series of events that are part of the Celebration of Jean Valentine as well as the June Poetry Reading Series.

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