By Farris Willingham, Editor-in-Chief
Claudia Emerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will visit campus April 4 to give a reading as part of the 14th annual Thatcher Hoffman Smith Poetry Series. She also will lead a conversation titled “Connecting through Poetry” at 10 a.m.
Both events are free and open to the public and will be hosted in Kerr McGee Auditorium in Meinders School of Business, officials said.
Emerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her book “Late Wife: Poems.” It documents the story of a woman who explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, new husband and herself through a series of poems.
Emerson, English professor at University of Mary Washington in Virginia, is a contributing editor to Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University’s literary magazine.
Participants may purchase Emerson’s books, officials said. A book signing will follow the event.
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