HVWC
Guest Instructor
Winner of Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
for Most Outstanding Book of Poetry in 2003
Help
us celebrate Mr. Grennan's very prestigious and well-deserved award for
his latest poetry collection, Still Life with Waterfall, thank
him for teaching for us, and enjoy hearing him read. Born in Ireland,
which he visits as often as possible, he has lived for decades in the
U.S. and is the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College
in Poughkeepsie. His work is widely published in the finest journals here
and in Ireland and he has received Pushcart Prizes, NEA, National Endowment
for the Humanities, and Guggenheim awards, and many other honors.
His good buddy and fellow Irish poet, Billy Collins, says of him: “Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the marvels of the earth. To read him is to be led on a walk through the natural world of clover and cricket,and, most of all, light, and to face with an open heart the complexity of being human.”
Introduction by Margo Stever, HVWC Founder
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.