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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
4:30 p.m.
Wallace Theater, Lewis Arts complex
FREE and open to the public

Poet and Princeton alum Jane Hirshfield ’73 and bestselling writer Walter Mosley read from their work on Wednesday, April 18, as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series presented by the Program in Creative Writing. Please note new location at Wallace Theater, moved from previously scheduled location at Berlind Theatre.

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The Wallace Theater is located on the Forum level of the Wallace Dance Building at the Lewis Arts complex, 122 Alexander Street, Princeton.

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ABOUT THE WRITERS

jane hirshfield headshot

Photo by Curt Richter

JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of eight collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Beauty (longlisted for the National Book Award ); Come, Thief; After (shortlisted for England’s T.S. Eliot Prize and named a “best book of 2006” by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the London Financial Times); Given Sugar, Given Salt (finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award); The Lives of the Heart; and The October Palace, as well as two books of essays, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (2015), which was awarded the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, Harper’s, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, eight editions of The Best American Poetry, five Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and many other publications. Hirshfield’s honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets; The California Book Award; and the Northern California Book Reviewers Award, among others. In 2012, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Watch Jane’s Alumni POV video »


walter mosley headshot

Photo by Marcia Wilson

Novelist and social commentator WALTER MOSLEY is the author of more than 40 books, ranging from the crime novel to literary fiction, nonfiction, political essay, young adult, and science fiction. The first African-American to serve on the board of directors of the National Book Awards, Mosley has received an O’Henry Award, The Sundance Risktaker Award, a Grammy, and two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work. In 2016, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Edgar Awards and was named the first African-American “Grand Master” by the Mystery Writers of America. His upcoming novel, Down the River Unto the Sea, centers on a former New York City police detective turned Brooklyn PI; it is slated for a February 2018 release.

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