March 19 — Hear one of the country's great poets, Charles Simic

Charles Simic, who served last year as the United States’ 15th poet laureate, is one of the nation’s most honored and distinguished poets.

When: Thursday March 19, 7:30 PM
Where: Butler University, Johnson Room, Robertson Hall

Free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

Charles Simic, who served last year as the United States’ 15th poet laureate, is one of the nation’s most honored and distinguished poets. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. Over the last few decades, he has published dozens of books of poetry and prose, including Selected Poems: 1963-1983; The Voice at 3:00 AM: Selected Late and New Poems; The World Doesn’t End, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and, in the past year, his most recent volume of poetry, That Little Something, and a collection of notebook entries, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth.

Simic has been prolific not just as a poet but as an editor, translator, and reviewer, and he has received numerous awards, including Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts and MacArthur fellowships, and, in 2007, the Wallace Stevens Award. He lives in Strafford, N.H., and is emeritus professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.