Thursday, April 11, 2013

Writers on Mondays - Mary Ruefle


'Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness.' — Tony Hoagland

Mary Ruefle has published ten books of poetry including a Selected Poems, as well as a book of witty 'prose' (The Most of It) - both through Wave Books - and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed. She is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in A Little White Shadow.

Most recently, her wise and effervescent collection of essays on poetry and life,  Madness, Rack, and Honey, earned her a well-deserved shortlisting for this year's National Book Critics' Circle Awards. The New York Times reviewer declared Madness, Rack, and Honey 'one of the wisest books I’ve read in years…it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it.'

Mary Ruefle has been the recipient of numerous honours, including the William Carlos Williams award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She currently lives in Vermont, teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Venue: City Gallery Wellington

Date:     Monday 15 April

Time:     12.15-1.15pm
Writers on Mondays events are open to the public and free of charge.
This event is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and City Gallery Wellington.

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