Friday, April 02, 2004
Award-winning poet reading at USI
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University of Southern Indiana’s RopeWalk Reading Series will feature critically acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee at 7 p.m. April 29. The free public presentation in Forum I of the Wright Administration Building will be followed by a book signing. Lee’s lyrical poetry fuses memory, family, culture, and history in language that is both simple and powerful. Born in 1957 to Chinese parents living in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lee’s family fled the country two years later when his father, a political prisoner, was released. Together they traveled to Hong Kong, Macau, and Japan before arriving in America in 1964. Lee now resides in Chicago with his wife Donna and their children. His first book of poetry, Rose (1986), was awarded New York University’s Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. The 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection from The Academy of American Poets, The City in Which I Love You, followed. He then published the autobiography, The Winged Seed, in 1994, and a third book of poetry, Book of My Nights, in 2001. Lee has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Lannan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He also is the recipient of numerous grants and other awards. He has taught at many colleges and universities and studied at University of Pittsburgh, University of Arizona, and State University of New York College at Brockport. Presented by the USI School of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. |
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