Poetry: Maureen McLane

FEB 18 THU: February 18 2010, 07:00pm; Hammer Readings

: Maureen McLane; Same Life: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, 128 pages.

Maureen McLane is the author of two volumes of poems, Same Life (2008) and the forthcoming World Enough, and a prose study, Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Formerly the chief poetry critic of the Chicago Tribune, she has written about poetry, fiction, teaching, and sexuality for the Tribune, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and elsewhere. She has taught at Harvard and is currently at NYU.

POETRY
A series of readings organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.

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