By Erika Mantz, Media Relations
The Friends of Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire
will host the sixth in a series of one-on-one conversations with
authors who have ties to the Granite State Sunday, April 2, 2006,
at 2 p.m. when local author Rebecca Rule interviews Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Charles Simic before a live audience. The
program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
To reserve a space, e-mail nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540.
Simic has published more than 60 books, including “Charon’s
Cosmology,” which was nominated for a National Book Award,
and “The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems,” which
won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In addition, he has contributed
hundreds of poems and essays to the most widely read literary
journals in the country, including The New Yorker, The
Atlantic,
The Paris Review, Harpers and The New Republic. His work has
brought him an impressive list of national awards, most notably
a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, the American Academy
of Poets Edgar Allen Poe Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003
he was awarded his first major international prize, the Horst
Bienek Prize for Poetry. Simic has been a professor of English
at UNH for more than 30 years.
Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s Inside
the Actors’ Studio, Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author
Rebecca Rule invites poets, fiction and non-fiction writers,
and journalists with a connection to New Hampshire to share their
insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing.
These one-on-one interviews are conducted in front of a live
audience and recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for
future broadcast on NH Outlook. NH Outlook, NHPTV’s award-winning
nightly newsmagazine, airs weeknights at 7:30 p.m., and again
at 11:30 p.m., 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. NH Outlook programs are also
available for viewing online at www.nhptv.org/outlook. There
will be an opportunity for members of the audience to ask questions,
light refreshments will be served after the interview and both
authors will be available to sign their books.
To learn more about the series or to receive updates, e-mail
nh.authors@unh.edu or call (603) 862-1540.