Lecture, Charles Simic, American Poet

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Charles Simic, American Poet

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has been honored with a Wallace Stevens Award, a Pulitzer Prize, two PEN Awards for his work as a translator, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 1967 Simic has published 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), The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1990), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Selected Poems: 1963-1983 (1990), and Classic Ballroom Dances (1980), which won the University of Chicago’s Harriet Monroe Award and the Poetry Society of America’s di Castagnola Award. His newest book of poems, That Little Something, was released in the spring of 2008. A collection entitled Sixty Poems was published in honor of his appointment as United States Poet Laureate. Simic has also published a number of prose books: Memory Piano (2006); Metaphysician in the Dark (2003); A Fly in My Soup (2003); Orphan Factory (1998); The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs (1994); Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1992); Wonderful Words, Silent Truth: Essays on Poetry and a Memoir (1990); and Renegade, a book of essays. He has published many translations of poets from former Yugoslavia such as Ivan Lalic, Vasko Popa, Tomasz Salamun and Aleksandar Ristovic. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the poetry editor of The Paris Review.

This lecture is being given in conjunction with the Boston Athenæum’s exhibition “An Artist + A Poet: George Nama and Charles Simic.”

Reservations for Boston Athenæum Members: There is no fee for this event. Reservations are required but will not be accepted until February 12. Please call the Athenæum's reservation line, 617-720-7600.

Reservations for Non-Members:  There is no fee for this event. Reservations are required but will not be accepted until February 12. Please call the Athenæum's reservation line, 617-720-7600