DURHAM, N.H. -- 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. A photo is available at: http://www.unh.edu/news/img/library/simic.JPG.
