Charles Simic

An event to honor the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Tate, featuring John Ashbery, Gillian Conoley, Michael Earl Craig, Jorie Graham, Matthea Harvey, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorothea Lasky, Emily Pettit, Guy Pettit, Srikanth Reddy, Charles Simic, Arisa White, Charles Wright, Dean Young, and Matthew Zapruder. Introduced by David Lehman, Associate Professor of Writing at The New School, and featuring music by Eve Beglarian and Charles Wuorinen, and vocals by Maya Sharpe. (rmharris)… (more)

We're thrilled to host celebrated poet Charles Simic, reading from both a new volume of poems and an essay collection, on Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm. From Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic comes a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself. The Lunatic, the latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic, one of America's most celebrated poets, demonstrates his revered signature style--a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems range in subject from mortality to personal ads, from the simple wonders of nature to his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia. For over fifty years, Simic has delighted readers with his innovative form, quiet humor, and his rare ability to limn our interior life and concisely capture the depth of human emotion. These stunning, succinct poems--most no longer than a page, some no longer than a paragraph--validate and reinforce Simic's importance and relevance in modern poetry. In addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years. A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic's poetry so brilliant yet accessible. Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his childhood development, pondering the relationship between food and comfort, or elegizing the pull to return to a homeland that no longer exists, the legendary poet shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into his remarkable mind. Charles Simic, poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Yugoslavia in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1954. Since 1967, he has published twenty books of his own poetry, including his most recent collection, New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012, in addition to a memoir and numerous books of translations for which he has received many literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, the Griffin Prize, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Wallace Stevens Award. Simic is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and in 2007 was chosen as poet laureate of the United States. He is emeritus professor of the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 1973, and is distinguished visiting writer at New York University.

Location: Street: 125 Water Street City: Exeter, Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03833-2456 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015, 7 pm

This giant of the poetry world rejoins us at Gibson's to share two of his new works!

The Lunatic: Poems, a dazzling collection of poems as original, meditative, and humorous as the legendary poet himself.

This latest volume of poetry demonstrates his revered signature style--a mix of understated brilliance, wry melancholy, and sardonic wit. These seventy luminous poems range in subject from mortality to personal ads, from the simple wonders of nature to his childhood in war-torn Yugoslavia.

For over fifty years, Simic has delighted readers with his innovative form, quiet humor, and his rare ability to limn our interior life and concisely capture the depth of human emotion. These stunning, succinct poems--most no longer than a page, some no longer than a paragraph--validate and reinforce Simic's importance and relevance in modern poetry. The Life of Images: Selected Prose. A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America's most famous and commended poets, Charles Simic is a prolific and talented essayist. The Life of Images brings together his best prose work written over twenty-five years.

A blend of the straightforward, the wry, and the hopeful, the essays in The Life of Images explore subjects ranging from literary criticism to philosophy, photography to Simic's childhood in a war-torn country. Culled from five collections, each work demonstrates the qualities that make Simic's poetry so brilliant yet accessible.

Whether he is revealing the influence of literature on his childhood development, pondering the relationship between food and comfort, or elegizing the pull to return to a homeland that no longer exists, the legendary poet shares his distinctive take on the world and offers an intimate look into his remarkable mind.

Location: Street: 45 S Main St Additional: City: Concord , Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03301 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Charles Simic

The Poetry Society's Annual Lecture. "Drawing on his experience as Poet Laureate of the United States, Charles will deliver a playful and provocative lecture about the shifts in today's poetic landscape from Belgrade to Boston. This event will be hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe, Chair of the Poetry Society." Tickets £12, concessions and Poetry Society members £8. (RoboSchro)… (more)

Charles Simic , The Monster Loves His Labyrinth.

Author: Charles Simic,
15th Poet Laureate of the United States (2007-2008), was born in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, 1n 1938, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 15. A poet,
essayist and translator, Charles has written numerous collections of poems,
among them: My Noiseless Entourage (2005); Selected Poems:
1963-2003 (2004), for which he received the 2005 International Griffin
Poetry Prize; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems (2003)
and The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems (1990), for which he received The
Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for Poetry. Charles has won a Wallace Stevens
Award, two PEN Awards for translations and a MacArthur Fellowship. Prose
books include: Memory Piano (2006); A Fly in My Soup (2003)
and Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1992). Charles
is Emeritus Professor of the University of New Hampshire, where he taught for 34
years. Charles has a sweet tooth for pinkberry ice cream as noted
in his photograph.
Title: The Monster Loves
His Labyrinth: Notebooks, $14.00 Softcover, ISBN 9781931337403, On Sale Date:
September 01, 2008
What: Charles Simic
will read from his books, he talk about his books, his life, his work, answer
audience questions and he will autograph copies of his books at our Author Event. Rainy Day Books will have
Charles Simic's Books for Sale at this Author Event.
When: Thursday, October 23, 2008,
6:30 PM: Reception at 6:00 PM, Reading at 6:30 PM and
Booksigning from 7:30 PM until 8:00 PM
Where:
Rockhurst
University, Convocation Center, Rockhurst Road (E 52nd Street) & Tracy
Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Admission: $5.00 Regular,
$3.00 Students and Senior Citizens. No one will be denied Admission for
lack of funds. Please Call The Center for Arts and Letters at 816-501-4607
or 816-501-4828 of visit
www.Rockhurst.edu/ArtsAndLetters/ for information about this Series or other
Rockhurst University Cultural Events. Rainy Day Books will have
Charles Simic's Books for Sale at this Author Event.
Sponsored by: Midwest Poets Series;
Rockhurst University: The Center for Arts and Letters; The College of Arts
and Sciences; and Rainy Day Books (booksense)… (more)

Charles Simic reads from That Little Something.

A profoundly important poet of our time, Charles Simic is a Pulitzer Prize-winner, the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States. The Library of Congress calls his work, “a rich body of highly organized poetry with shades of darkness and flashes of ironic humor,” and it is often praised for its accessibility, ease and surprising imagery. Simic will read from his collections and his recently-released 18th book of poems, That Little Something.

Co-presented with UCSB Libraries.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

This is a FREE event. (teaandfire)… (more)