Williams College to Host Dean Young for Poetry Reading

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., February 4, 2015—Williams College will host poet Dean Young for a reading of his work on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. This event will take place in the Sawyer Library Forum and is free and open to the public.

Young holds an M.F.A from Indiana University. His numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Primitive Mentor (2008), shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. He also has written a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010). His most recent book is Bender: New and Selected Poems (2012). His work is influenced by the New York School poets and Surrealists such as Andre Breton, and it often blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Young has received several fellowships from institutions such as Stanford University, the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His poems have been featured in Best American Poetry. Young has taught at Loyola University Chicago, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Warren Wilson College, and the University of Wisconsin. He is currently the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas-Austin.

The event is sponsored by the Department of English.

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Published February 4, 2015