PORTLAND — The University of Southern Maine has announced thatCharles Simic has been named the 2013 O’Brien Poet. At 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, Simic will read on the seventh floor of the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Family Library, 314 Forest Ave. The reading is free and open to the public.
Simic is one of the most celebrated poets of his generation.The former U.S. Poet Laureate is the author of more than 60 booksof poems, translations, and essays. Among his many awards and recognitions,Simic has won the Pulitzer Prize (1990), the Robert Frost Medal, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the WallaceStevens Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and the Vilcek Prize for the Arts andHumanities.
Discussing his creative process, Simic has said: “When you start putting words on the page, an associative process takes over. And, all of a sudden, there are surprises. All of a sudden you say to yourself, ‘My God, how did this come into your head? Why is this on the page?’ I just simply go where it takes me.”
For more information, email jtussing@usm.maine.edu or call 207-228-8393.
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