Virginia Poet Laureate to speak at CNU
LifeLong Learning Society
welcomes prominent guest lecturer
News Release - March 10, 2003
contact:
Denise Waters
dwaters@cnu.edu
757-594-7331
Dr. George Garrett, Virginia’s Poet Laureate, will be a guest lecturer for CNU’s LifeLong Learning Society, on Monday, March 31 at 2:30 p.m. in The Gaines Theatre, located in the Student Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University. Garrett will also hold a master class for CNU poetry students prior to the lecture.
In July 2002, Governor Mark R. Warner named George Garrett, a poet, novelist, essayist, humorist, critic and editor, Poet Laureate of Virginia. During his term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness for a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. Dr. Garrett plans to explore ways to use poetry and literature in education throughout Virginia.
George Garrett has had a varied literary career, publishing in almost every genre. His most recent novel is The King of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You (1996). He is best known, however, for his trilogy of historical novels, Death of the Fox (1971), The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James (1983), and Entered from the Sun (1990).
Garrett received his Ph.D. from Princeton and holds an honorary degree from the University of the South. He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Sabbatical Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the T.S. Eliot Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, and the Commonwealth of Virginia Governor's Award for the Arts. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Bennington College, Princeton University, and Hollins College. George Garrett is currently the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
The LifeLong Learning Society is a membership organization dedicated to persons of retirement age who seek opportunities for learning in an environment of sharing and fellowship. For more information or a catalog, call the LifeLong Learning Society at 594-7568 or visit the CNU-LLS home page at http://users.cnu.edu/~lls.