Announcement: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn to Speak March 10

Stephen Dunn, who earned the
2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection, Different Hours, will
deliver the second annual Christina Porter Art and Poetry in the Schools
Lecture on Monday, March 10, 12:30 PM, in Higgins Hall Center Auditorium,
located at 61 St. James Place at the corner of Lafayette Avenue. The
lecture is free and open to the public.

Dunn's address,
"Forms and Structures, " follows a 2007 lecture by the first
speaker in the series, Alice Quinn, poetry editor of The New Yorker
magazine. The program honors the late daughter of Professor Brent Porter
and Mary Salstrom Porter, and is an extension of work in the public
schools by Christina Porter Art and Poetry interns, directed by Art
Education Chair Amy Brook Snider.

Stephen Dunn earned a B.A. in
history and English from Hofstra University, attended the New School
Writing Workshops, and received his M.A. in creative writing at Syracuse
University.

In addition to Different Hours, Dunn's books of
poetry include Everything Else in the World (2006); Different Hours,
(2003); Loosestrife (1996); New and Selected Poems: 1974-1994 (1994);
Landscape at the End of the Century (1991); Between Angels (1989); Local
Time (1986), winner of the National Poetry Series; Not Dancing (1984);
Work & Love (1981); A Circus of Needs (1978); Full of Lust and Good
Usage (1976), all published by W. W. Norton. He also is the author of
Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry (2001), and Riffs &
Reciprocities: Prose Pairs (1998), both published by BOA Editions.

Dunn's other honors include the Academy Award for Literature, the
James Wright Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He is currently Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey Distinguished Professor of Creative
Writing.

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