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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn will present “Toward Grace and a Redefinition of Manners; How Some Poems Might Show the Way” to open the Du Pont Scholars Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, March 6, at the University of Delaware. His talk, free and open to the public, will be held in 127 Memorial Hall, on The Green, in Newark.

Dunn’s book “Different Hours” was the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. A distinguished professor of creative writing and a trustee fellow in the arts at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Publishers Weekly has called him “a poet of domestic emotions and New Jersey landscapes” widely acclaimed for his “plain diction and commonsense homilies.”

Other books by Dunn include “Loosestrife,” “Landscape at the End of the Century” and “Between Angels.” His most recent volume, his 12th, is “Local Visitations.”

Dunn was born in New York City in 1939. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and English from Hofstra University in 1962 where he was a key player on a basketball team that went 25-1 and is generally regarded as the greatest team in school history.

He attended the New School Writing Workshops, and earned his master’s degree in creative writing from Syracuse University. Dunn has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter and an editor.

His 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 has taught poetry and creative writing and held residencies at Wartburg College, Wichita State University, Columbia University, University of Washington, Syracuse University, Southwest Minnesota State College, Princeton University and University of Michigan.

For more information on his UD appearance, call (302) 831-1195.

Contact: Beth Thomas, (302) 831-8749
Feb. 27, 2003