Stanley Kunitz
dal 22/2/2002 al 23/2/2002
Segnalato da
22/2/2002
Stanley Kunitz
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Stanley Kunitz reads retrospectively from a wide span of his poetry as part of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Center for the Arts. Readings in this series trace a trajectory of the participating poets' work, from early poems to as-yet-unpublished work, and are accompanied by broadsides featuring selected poems. Kunitz will be introduced by poet Mark Doty.
READING HIS POETRY AT DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Introduction by Mark Doty
Stanley Kunitz reads retrospectively from a wide span of his poetry as
part of the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Center for the
Arts. Readings in this series trace a trajectory of the participating
poets' work, from early poems to as-yet-unpublished work, and are
accompanied by broadsides featuring selected poems. Kunitz will be
introduced by poet Mark Doty.
Saturday, February 23, 2002, 4pm
Stanley Kunitz has won the Pulitzer Prize (1959), the Bollingen Prize
(1987), a National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship (1984), and
the National Book Award (1995). He has published over eighteen books of
poetry. From 2000-2001 Kunitz served as the United States Poet Laureate.
He lives in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Mark Doty is the author of five books of poems. He has won the
Ambassador Book Award (1995), the Bingham Poetry Prize (1995), the
National Book Critics Circle Award (1993) and Britain's T. S. Eliot
Prize (1993). Doty lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Houston,
Texas, where he teaches at the University of Houston.
ADMISSION
$6, $3 for Dia members, students, and seniors. Admission includes
entrance to Dia's galleries.
READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Since 1987, more than one hundred poets have participated in Dia's
Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. These readings have included
historic literary events, such as James Schuyler's first public reading.
With a generous grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, Dia is
making selected audio from early readings available on Dia's website at
http://www.diacenter.org/ prg/poetry/index.html. In addition, beginning
with the 2001-2002 season, recordings of entire readings are also
posted. Readings in Contemporary Poetry is supported by generous grants
from The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc., the Lannan
Foundation, the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, and the Axe-Houghton
Foundation.
DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Dia Center for the Arts is a project of the Dia Art Foundation. Founded
in 1974, the Dia Art Foundation is dedicated to supporting, presenting,
and preserving artworks in nearly every medium, and to serving as a
locus for interdisciplinary art and criticism. Programming at Dia Center
for the Arts, in Chelsea, New York, includes temporary exhibitions,
commissioned artists' projects for the web, lectures, poetry readings,
film and video screenings, performances, scholarly research and
publications, symposia, and an arts education program that serves area
students.
Exhibition hours at Dia Center for the Arts during the 2001-2002 season
are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6pm, through June 16, 2002.
Dia Center for the Arts,
548 West 22nd Street (between 10th and 11th
avenues), New York City