Monday, December 8 | 7 pm
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library
Lecture Hall 230

We are so honored to announce that U.S. Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze, will be visiting our campus on Monday, December 8. Sze chose our college specifically because of our first-generation immigrant population, and his talk will specifically involve translation of poetry from other languages.

After reading from his vast body of work, Sze will sit down with our own Distinguished Professor Kimiko Hahn, herself the Poet Laureate of New York State, for a star-studded conversation on poetry and translation.

Poet Laureate is the highest title a poet can be awarded from a government or institution. The fact that Sze is not only coming, but selected us as the first public reading he will give in this position, is a huge honor for us. Sze’s goal for his time as Poet Laureate is to create a new anthology of poems from various languages and time periods with new translations, making these past works breathe again.

We hope to see you all on campus, or over Zoom at the link below:

https://bit.ly/ZoomUSPoetLaureate