Eavan Boland
2009 Ida Beam Distinguised Visiting Professor
October 12 Monday - 8 pm Special Event, Shambaugh Auditorium in Library Bldg.
Paul Engle Memorial Reading hosted by the International Writing Program in the Shambaugh Auditorium of the UI Main Library at 8:00 p.m. The event will be free and open to the public.
Boland, who attended the IWP residency in 1979, has published nine volumes of poetry, as well as two volumes of prose. Her awards include the Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and the advisory board of the International Writers Center at Washington University. She is professor of English at Stanford University and director of the creative writing program.
October 13 Tuesday - 11-12 am - Frank Conroy Reading Room, Dey House 507 N. Clinton Street.
Q & A - Boland will host a Question-and-Answer session at 11 a.m. in the Frank Conroy Reading Room of the Dey House, home of the Writers’ Workshop
October 14 Wednesday 10:00 am - Live Chat Writing University Website
http://www.writinguniversity.org/ The Writing University website will host an online chat with Eavan Boland. The conversation will take place entirely on-line. Boland will be discussing poetry, writing in an international community, as well as other literary topics. You can join the conversation by submitting questions before or during the discussion, via the Writing University website’s submission page here. Join us at 10 AM on Oct 14th at the Writing University website to read the discussion live as it occurs.