Editors Pick: Montgomery Fellow Poetry Reading

Lucille Clifton

Winter term Montgomery Fellow Lucille Clifton, a poet, historian, children's author, memoirist, and professor, will hold a public poetry reading and conversation on Jan. 30. Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985, Clifton has published 11 collections of poems, including Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 (2000), winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. She received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Dartmouth in 2005 and is the author of the 1976 memoir, Generations, and of some 20 children's books.

• Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 4:30 p.m.
• Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
• 646-4062

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for the spring Montgomery Fellow Endowment event—a public panel discussion with the Pilobolus dance company on April 4 at 3:30 p.m.

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