[PAST EVENT] Claudia Emerson, 2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner, to Speak

April 10, 2014
7pm
Location
Tucker Hall, Tucker Theatre 127A
350 James Blair Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Secure the Shadow, her newest collection, was published in 2012. She is also the author of Figure Studies: Poems, Pinion: An Elegy, and Pharaoh, Pharaoh; all volumes are published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals.
Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2008-2010. She is professor of English in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.