Poet Jane Shore to read at Vassar, February 22

Poet Jane Shore will deliver the second annual Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Reading at Vassar College on Tuesday, February 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Blanche Brumback Spitzer Auditorium, Eleanor Butler Sander Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.

Shore is a former student, colleague, and friend of Elizabeth Bishop, a 1934 Vassar graduate who is considered a major poet of the twentieth century. Shore's first book of poems, "Eye Level," won the 1977 Juniper Prize; her second book, "The Minute Hand," won the 1986 Lamont Poetry Prize, awarded by The Academy of American Poets; and "Music Minus One" was a 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her most recent book of poems is "Happy Family." She received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and was a fellow in poetry at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (formerly the Radcliffe Institute), an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, a Goodyear Fellow at the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, and a Jenny McKean Moore

Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Shore was also a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in English at Harvard University and a visiting distinguished poet at the University of Hawaii. Her poems have been published in numerous magazines, including Poetry (for which she received The Bess Hokin Award), the New Republic, Ploughshares, and the Yale Review. She is currently a professor at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

The Elizabeth Bishop Poetry Reading is made possible through the gift of Priscilla H. Rockwell and H.P. Davis Rockwell as well as the Helen Forster Novy '28 Fund for Visiting Scholars.

For additional information, call the office of campus activities at (845) 437-5370. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations may contact Cathy Jennings at (845) 437-5370, as far in advance as possible to request appropriate and reasonable accommodations.

Vassar College is a highly selective, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861. Named the 1999 "College of the Year" by Time Magazine/The Princeton Review, Vassar is celebrating 30 years of coeducation.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Campus Activities Office at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2000.