Pulitzer Prize Winner, Poet Laureate to Speak on Campus

Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser, the U.S. poet laureate and 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, will speak at 8 p.m., Nov. 16 as part of the Adamson Visiting Writers Series. His talk will take place in the Adamson Wing of Baker Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Kooser won the Pulitzer for his book "Delights and Shadows," which was published by Copper Canyon Press. Three of the last five Pulitzer winners, including Kooser, either started or spent some portion of their careers with the Carnegie Mellon University Press. Kooser's collection "Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison" was published in 2001 by the university press.

Carnegie Mellon published three collections by 2004 winner Franz Wright and four collections by Stephen Dunn, who won the Pulitzer in 2001. In 1986, Carnegie Mellon published poet Rita Dove's "Thomas and Beulah," which was awarded the Pulitzer the following year.

The Adamson Visiting Writers Series is run by the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English. The series is made possible by the generous support of the Pauline B. Adamson Fund.

For more on the Carnegie Mellon University Press, visit http://www.cmu.edu/universitypress/

Jonathan Potts
November 7, 2005