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An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee

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An Evening with Poet Li-Young Lee: April 8, 2021 @ 7pm

Li-Young Lee is the author of five books of poetry, including his newest collection, The Undressing which is forthcoming in 2018. His earlier collections are Behind My Eyes; Book of My Nights; Rose, winner of the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; The City in Which I Love You, the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection; and a memoir entitled The Winged Seed: A Remembrance, which received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and will be reissued by BOA Editions in 2012. Lee’s honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

 

Event co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Gaines Center

Check out his Poetry Foundation feature for poems and more information: 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee

(registration link below)

https://uky.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H4mH8o1PTrChwbSjjpKr9A