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A Night of Poetry with Charles Simic

April 30, 2008 | Baruch College, CUNY Lecture Series

Post-War World II Belgrade was a “living” slaughterhouse, says Yugoslavian-born Charles Simic, the Poet Laureate of the United States and the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. After moving to the U.S. in 1954, Simic discovered poetry as a tool for exploring his postwar experience. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” and most recently, the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award for Poetry, Simic, now 70, reads and discusses poems from his 2008 book “That Little Something,” a remembrance of his salad days in New York City.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic

April 28, 2008 | Newsmakers

More than a half-century ago, Charles Simic arrived in the United States from Belgrade speaking little English. Today, at 70, he is among the world’s most celebrated poets. He has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, as well as other works, and has garnered virtually every major award, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2007 he was appointed the 15th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. A retired professor of creative writing at the University of New Hampshire, Prof. Simic is the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College for the spring semester. Discussing his work and remarkable life, Prof. Simic says, “I don’t think, ever before, has there been so much interest in poetry.”
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