| | 2,096 (4,965) | 34 | 10,563 |  (3.79) | 1 | 0 | J. D. McClatchy was born Joseph Donald McClatchy Jr. in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1945. He received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. He taught at Yale University and Princeton University. He was the editor of The Yale Review from 1991 until his retirement in 2017. He was a poet, editor, anthologist, translator, and critic. He wrote eight volumes of poetry including Scenes from Another Life, Stars Principal, Kilim, Ten Commandments, The Rest of the Way, Mercury Dressing, Hazmat, and Plundered Hearts. He edited the Library of America's 2007 volume Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater. His volumes of criticism included White Paper: On Contemporary American Poetry and Twenty Questions. His anthologies included Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems. His poems and essays appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and The Paris Review. He received two Lambda Literary Awards and Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize. He was also the author of opera librettos. He died from cancer on April 10, 2018 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry … (more) |
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J. D. McClatchy has 3 past events. (show) The Leopard with J.D. McClatchy Award-winning poet J.D. McClatchy discusses the relationship between his poetic practice and his work as a librettist. Followed by a reading of The Leopard, McClatchy’s libretto for a new opera based on the internationally acclaimed novel from 1958 by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. McClatchy is joined by the opera’s composer Michael Dellaira for a post-reading talk. Presented with American Opera Projects. (rmharris)… (more) Poetry Book Club - New Time Our poetry book club, led by Linda Leavell, meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month at 5pm. Readings from an assigned anthology or collection are discussed, but come try out a meeting even if you didn't get the poetry read. They welcome new members and will get you on the discussion list for the next meeting. At this meeting they will discuss poems in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, pp. 274-285, 204-211. Location: Street: 205 W Dickson St City: Fayetteville, Province: Arkansas Postal Code: 72701 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Poetry Book Club Our poetry book club, led by Linda Leavell, meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month at 6pm. Readings from an assigned anthology are discussed, but come try out a meeting even if you didn't get the poetry read. They welcome new members and will get you on the discussion list for the next meeting. This meeting, they will be discussing the Sylvia Plath poems in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, pp. 368-380. The discussion will include "Lady Lazarus" and "Edge" along with other Plath poems of your choice. Location: Street: 205 W Dickson St City: Fayetteville, Province: Arkansas Postal Code: 72701 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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