Tuesday, March 16
7:30 PM
Acton Boxborough Regional High School Auditorium
36 Charter Road
Acton
Free Admission
Please join us for a special night with a reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder. Snyder is the author of sixteen books of poetry and prose, including The Gary Snyder Reader (1952-1998) (Counterpoint Press, 1999); Mountains and Rivers Without End (1997); No Nature: New and Selected Poems (1993), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; The Practice of the Wild (1990); Left Out in the Rain, New Poems 1947-1985; Axe Handles (1983), for which he received an American Book Award; and Turtle Island (1974), which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He has received many awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the Bollingen Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize 2008. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Davis, and lives in northern California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-0WLiNLQM