Posted By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Claudia Emerson.
The winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry will read at UNCG.
Claudia Emerson, a 1991 graduate of the MFA Writing Program, will give a reading at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 in Curry Auditorium in the Curry Building on Spring Garden Street. The reading is free, open to the public, and sponsored by the MFA Writing Program and The Greensboro Review.
Emerson, a professor at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Va., is the author of “Late Wife,” which was published by LSU Press and won the Pulitzer last April. She is also the author of “Pinion, an Elegy” and “Pharaoh, Pharaoh,” both also from LSU Press. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, including “The Greensboro Review,” “Poetry,” “Shenandoah” and “The Southern Review.”
She won the Associated Writing Program’s Intro Award, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. In 2003, she won the Mary Washington College Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Award.
In addition to her reading in Curry Auditorium, Emerson will give a short interview and reading at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 7 on WUAG, 103.1 FM, the university’s independent student radio station.
