November 3, 2004 SELINSGROVE, (Pa.) – Louise Glück, the 2003-2004 Poet Laureate of the United States, will read from her work as part of The Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna University. Sponsored by The Writers’ Institute, the reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in Degenstein Center Theater. The reading is free and open to the public. Glück is the author of ten books of poetry including Vita Nova, winner of the Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize; Wild Iris, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; The Triumph of Achilles, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award; and Ararat, for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry. She has also published a collection of essays on poetry, titled Proofs and Theories, which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. In the fall of 2003, Glück accepted the position of U.S. Poet Laureate. Her credentials as Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of numerous major writing prizes earned her the ceremonial, yet highly prestigious appointment. Prior to that, she served as Vermont’s state poet. She currently teaches at Yale University. Glück is the third of six writers scheduled to read at Susquehanna during the 2004-2005 school year as part of the Visiting Writers Series sponsored by The Writers Institute. On February 21, poet Michael Waters will visit the university. Contact: Victoria Kidd 570-372-4119 #vk/1164#