LECTURES & LITERATURE

    Poetry Reading by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop

    Poetry Reading by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop

    Presented by University of Pennsylvania at University of Pennsylvania

    November 4, 2009


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    Keith Waldrop was born in Kansas and served in the United States military.. He studied at Aix-Marseille and Michigan Universities, earning a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1964. His first book of poetry, A Windmill Near Calvary (University of Michigan, 1968), was nominated for a National Book Award.  Rosmarie Waldrop was born in Kitzingen am Main, Germany. Waldrop began publishing her poetry in English in the late 1960s. She is now the author of more than three dozen books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, most recently her trilogy Curves to the Apple: The Reproduction of Profiles, Lawn of Excluded Middle, Reluctant Gravities (New Directions, 2006). Since 1968, the Waldrops have been co-editers and publishers of Burning Deck Press.


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        University of Pennsylvania

        3417 Spruce Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19103

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        Tickets: FREE!!

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        November 4, 2009

        Times:
        6 pm

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