Writers
At Masters
A
series bringing you the finest writers of our time.
Presented by The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center with support
from The Masters School
and Rivertowns Arts Council.
Events in this series take place at the Claudia Boettcher Theatre at The Masters
School in Dobbs Ferry.
Billy
Collins
Eamon Grennan
Tuesday,
December 11th, 2007
7:30 pm at The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry
(Claudia Boettcher
Theatre)
Billy Collins is the author of six books of poetry including The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems, Picnic, Lightning, Sailing Alone Around the Room and Questions About Angels, which was selected by Edward Hirsch for the National Poetry Series. Collins’ poetry has appeared in a variety of periodicals and in several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the editor of Poetry 180 and a New York Public Library “Literary Lion.” He is a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College. Billy Collins served as the United States Poet Laureate for 2001-2003 and in January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06.
Eamon Grennan is from Dublin, Ireland, and has lived in the United States for many years. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, including The Quick of It, Relations: New & Selected Poems and Still Life with Waterfall, which was awarded the 2003 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His collection of translations, Leopardi: Selected Poems, won the 1997 PEN Translation Award for Poetry. A collection of his critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century, was published in 1999. Grennan has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and he has taught at numerous universities, including New York University, Columbia University, and Villanova University. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he has been a longtime member of the English Department at Vassar College, and divides his time between there and the west of Ireland.
Billy Collins
photo by Jersey Walz
Eamon Grennan photo by Neal Greig
Admission: $15, payable at the door ($10 for members of HVWC and Rivertowns
Arts Council) - no advance ticket sales
Books will be available for purchase and autographing
at a reception afterwards.
The Masters School is located at 49 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Events are held in the Claudia Boettcher Theatre on the campus. Take Route 9 to Clinton Avenue in Dobbs Ferry (a short distance south of Ashford Avenue); turn east on Clinton, continue past two campus houses to main entrance of school; turn left at stone marker. The campus is located about one mile from the Dobbs Ferry railroad station on Metro-North's Hudson River Line. Taxi service is available from the station.
The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center's programs and events are made possible, in part, by grants 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 the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.