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2008 - 2009 Eagle Pond Author's Series

Named in honor of  Donald Hall’s ancestral home in Wilmot, New Hampshire that has inspired much of his work, this series brings to campus some of the most widely read and revered authors of our time.   Now in its eleventh season, all readings are free and followed by an author’s reception and book signing.   To ensure admission, obtaining tickets in advance is recommended since many readings fill to capacity.

The Eagle Pond Authors' Series is presented by the Silver Center and is supported by a generous grant from the Plymouth State University Bookstore and Follett Higher Education Group.

Donald Hall

Thursday, 9/18/08 at 7pm, Sold Out!
Smith Recital Hall

Join us to honor the man to whom this series is dedicated as we celebrate his eightieth birthday and the publication of Unpacking the Boxes, a memoir.   Hall will read from the book that chronicles his life from his childhood through Harvard and Oxford, to his youth with contemporaries Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and much more of his rich, rewarding and productive life through today.

Lucie Brock-Broido

Friday, 9/26/08 at 7pm, FREE!
Smith Recital Hall

Ms. Brock-Broido, is the director of poetry at Columbia University and the author of three collections of poetry: Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995) and A Hunger (1988). Described by the critic Stephen Burt as an “elliptical poet,” she has received many honors, including the Witter-Bynner Prize for Poetry, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship.

Major Jackson

Sunday, 10/19/08 at 3pm, FREE!
Smith Recital Hall

Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry, Hoops, a finalist for the NAACP Image Award and Leaving Saturn, winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards.  He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and by the Witter-Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.  He is an associate professor of English at University of Vermont and a faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

C. D. Wright

Sunday, 3/1/09 at 3pm, FREE!
Smith Recital Hall

A compelling and idiosyncratic poet, C.D. Wright has twelve collections including Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008), a weaving of deeply personal and politically ferocious poems;  Deepstep Come Shining and Cooling Time.  Her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Tayor Prize.  Her new and selected poems Steal Away was on the shortlist for the Griffin Trust Award.  She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor at Brown University.

Wesley McNair

Sunday, 4/5/09 at 3pm, FREE!
Smith Recital Hall

Wesley McNair is the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim Foundations and a United States Artists Fellowship to "America's finest living artists." Other honors include the Robert Frost Prize; the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry (for Fire); the Theodore Roethke prize from Poetry Northwest; the Pushcart Prize and the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal.  McNair is currently Professor Emeritus and Writer in Residence at the University of Maine at Farmington.