15th Annual Glasrud Lecture Series
Clarence "Soc" Glasrud taught English at MSUM from 1947 to 1977, including 23 years as chairman of the English Department. Now 94 years old, he graduated from MSUM in 1934, served in the Army Air Corps during WWII, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He is finishing a third book on the history of MSUM.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4:00 p.m. Glasrud Letcure • CMU 101
8:00 p.m. Reading • CMU 101
Annie Finch is the author of four volumes of poetry and poetry in translation. Finch’s recent works include Calendars (2003); a reissue of her early long poem, The Encylopedia of Scotland (2004); and a book of essays on poetry, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self (2005). Her poetic vision has also encompassed libretto and other musical and theater collaborations as well as five innovative anthologies about poetry and two books of poetics, including A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women (1994); The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse (2001); An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (2002) and Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (2005). Since 2005 she has served as Director of the Stonecoast graduate creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine.
MSUM also sponsors the Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series, now in its 18th season. Visit the English Department's McGrath Series page for more information.