Grace
Schulman’s newest poetry collection is The Broken String (Houghton
Mifflin, 2007). She is the author of six books of poems, including Days
of Wonder: New and Selected Poems and The Paintings of Our Lives
(both Houghton Mifflin). Among her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for
poetry, the Delmore Schwarts Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and
New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Her poems have received
three Pushcart prizes, and Days of Wonder was selected by Library
Journal as one of the best poetry books of 2002. Editor of The Poems
of Marianne Moore (Viking, 2003), she is Distinguished Professor of
English at Baruch College, CUNY. Her poems, essays, and translations have
appeared widely in journals, here and abroad. Schulman is former director
of the Poetry Center, 1974-84, and former poetry editor of The Nation,
1971- 2006. She lives in New York City and on Long Island with her husband,
Jerome.
Charlie Smith is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Heroin, Women of America, and the forthcoming Word Comix, all from Norton. His eight novels and novellas include Cheap Ticket to Heaven, Shine Hawk and The Lives of the Dead, and he has had five New York Times notable books. Smith is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, as well as Levinson and Aga Khan prizes. He has taught at Iowa and Princeton. Smith was born in and grew up in South Georgia and served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1968 to 1970. Educated at Duke University and the University of Iowa, he now lives in New York City.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
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Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center 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.