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Events
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
7 p.m.
Monroe Lecture Center Theater
California Avenue, South Campus
Frank Bidart is widely recognized as one of the most significant poets of our time. His most recent full-length collections of poetry are Watching the Spring Festival, Star Dust, Desire, and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. He won the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.
In 2007 Mr. Bidart was chosen as the winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, awarded biennially by the Yale University Library. The Bollingen Prize was established in 1949 and recognizes the best book or the lifetime achievement of an American poet.
Additional honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review’s first Bernard F. Conners Prize for “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky” in 1981.
Mr. Bidart was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He was educated at the University of California, Riverside, and Harvard. He currently teaches at Wellesley College, where he joined the faculty in 1972.