An Evening of Poetry with Grace Schulman

The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents Grace Schulman
Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024 at 7:00 pm

This event is free and open to the public.

Grace Schulman is the recipient of the Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, and a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is considered “the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in this country.” Her ninth and latest book of poems is Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976- 2022. She is the author of a memoir, Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, and an essay collection, First Loves and Other Adventures. Editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore, she is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Baruch College, C.U.N.Y. Among her other honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and five Pushcart Prizes. She is the translator, from the Hebrew, of The Poems of T. Carmi, and, from the Spanish, of Songs of Cifar, by Pablo Antonio Cuadra. About her poems, Harold Bloom has written, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1974-84, and former poetry editor of The Nation, 1971-2006.