Louise Glück: Poetry and Conversation

1201 East 60th Street,Chicago IL 60637

31 May, 2022

Description

Louise Glück, the Nobel Laureate in Literature (2020), will read and discuss a selection of her poems. About the Speaker Louise Glück, the Nobel Laureate in Literature (2020), is one of the great poets at work today. Author of more than a dozen books of poetry and two collections of essays, she is also a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris. Louise Glück also served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 2003. Her most recent collection of poems, Winter Recipes from the Collective, was published in 2021. Glück teaches at Yale University and Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. About the Director’s Lecture Series The Roman Family Director’s Lecture series at the Neubauer Collegium, made possible through the generous support of University of Chicago Trustee Emmanuel Roman, MBA’87, brings distinguished speakers to campus to share their insights with faculty, students, and the broader community. Speakers address fundamental challenges to the world today as well as enduring problems that confront us simply because we are human.