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John Ashbery via Live Webcast

The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents a conversation with poet John Ashbery conducted by Dr. Al Filreis, Kelly Writers House director, at 10:30 a.m., on March 26. To participate via webcast, you must RSVP to: whfellow@ english.upenn.edu.

Participants in the webcast will be able to interact with John Ashbery by e-mail or telephone.Those who RSVP will receive further instructions. Live webcasts featuring the Fellows can be found at: www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/webcasts.

When one goes at ideas directly, with hammer and tongs as it were, ideas tend to elude one in a poem. I think they only come back in when one pretends not to be paying any attention to them, like a cat that will rub against your leg.

--John Ashbery

John Ashbery is the author of over 20 books of poetry. In 1984, his book A Wave won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. For Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Some Trees (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series.

He has received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, the Feltrinelli Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is also a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.



Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 26, March 19, 2002

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:

Tuesday,
March 19, 2002
Volume 48 Number 26
www.upenn.edu/almanac/

Penn's Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing will become Georgetown's next Provost.
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Last call for volunteers for University Council committees for 2002-2003.
Military Leave Policy revisions clarify benefits for those serving their country.
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