Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 7 p.m.
Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition Hall, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, 10th Floor
South Campus

Eavan Boland’s books of poetry include Domestic Violence; Against Love Poetry: Poems, a 2001 New York Times notable book; The Lost Land: Poems; An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987; In a Time of Violence; Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990; The Journey and Other Poems; Night Feed; and In Her Own Image.

Ms. Boland was born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated in London, New York and Dublin. She is the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor for the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University.

Additional titles by Ms. Boland include Irish Writers on Writing; a volume of prose titled Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time; a volume of translations called After Every War; and The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, which she co-edited. W.W. Norton is publishing her New Collected Poems in January 2008, and she is currently co-editing The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, to be published in spring 2008.

She is the recipient of the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence from Centenary College, the Bucknell Medal of Distinction from Bucknell University, the Yale Review’s Smartt Family prize and Poetry Magazine’s John Frederick Nims Award.