A panel discussion:
Charles Simic and Nick Hayes
on War, Memory and Poetry

When: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 8:00 p.m.

Where: TRC Boardroom, CSB

Charles Simic

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has published five books of essays, a memoir, numerous translations and 16 collections of poetry. Born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Simic immigrated to the United States in 1952 and saw his first poems published in 1959. In 1961, he was drafted into the US Army and in 1966 earned his Bachelor’s degree at New York University, publishing his first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, in 1967.

Among his many accomplishments and accolades, Simic was the Guest Editor of The Best American Poetry 1992, was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2000 and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1973, Simic has lived in New Hampshire where he is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

Nick Hayes
University Chair in Critical Thinking
Quad 451B, SJU
(320) 363-2623

Patrick T. Brennan
Research Assistant
ptbrennan@csbsju.edu

Norma Koetter
Administrative Assistant, University Chair in Critical Thinking
(320) 363-2770
nkoetter@csbsju.edu