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Gibbons Ruark to give poetry reading April 4
4:32 p.m., March 14, 2006--Gibbons Ruark, professor of English and award-winning poet, will give a poetry reading, sponsored by the University of Delaware Library, at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 4, in the Reserve Room of the Morris Library. A reception will follow the reading. The event is open to the public, and anyone wishing to attend may request a printed invitation by sending e-mail to [libraryrsvp@winsor.lib.udel.edu] or by calling (302) 831-2231. Ruark's poems have appeared widely for nearly 40 years in such magazines as Ploughshares, The New Republic, The New Yorker and Poetry, as well as in anthologies and texts. Ruark has been recognized by three poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize. Collections of his poetry include A Program for Survival, Reeds, Keeping Company, Small Rain, Forms of Retrieval and Rescue the Perishing. Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems, published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1999, contains 70 poems by Ruark and will be available for purchase at the reading, where Ruark will sign copies. In addition, there will be exhibitions in the Morris Library in conjunction with the program. “Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on 20th-Century Poetry” will be on view in the Special Collections Exhibition Gallery on the second floor. “Poets at the University of Delaware” will be in the Information Room and “Poetry of Gibbons Ruark” will be in the Reserve Room, both on the first floor. Ruark holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and the University of Massachusetts and joined the UD faculty in 1968. He has announced he will retire from the University in August 2006. Photo by Robert Cohen |
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