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Poetry Reading Series

Co-sponsored by the University Professors Program and the Humanities Foundation at Boston University, the Poetry Reading Series strives to make poetry a fundamental part of university and community life. By presenting the work of both renowned and emerging poets, the series attempts to broaden our vision of poetry‚s concerns and effects. In the past, the series has featured readings by Jorie Graham, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Geoffrey Hill, Marcia Karp, Robert Pinsky, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Marilyn Hacker, Saskia Hamilton, and Linda Gregg, among others.

All readings are free, open to the public and take place in the College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215 unless stated otherwise.

The 2008-2009 Schedule:

Peter Fallon

Monday, March 30th at 5 p.m.

Katzenberg Center, 3rd Floor,

College of General Studies

871 Commonwealth Avenue

Peter Fallon was born in Germany in 1951 and grew up on his uncle's farm near Kells in County Meath. He is an Honours Graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where, in 1994, he was Writer Fellow in the English Department. At the age of eighteen he founded The
Gallery Press which has published more than four hundred books of poems and plays by the country's finest established and emerging authors and which is recognized as Ireland's pre-eminent literary publishing house. In 1990 he edited, with Derek Mahon, the best-selling anthology The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry. His own
collections of poems include The Speaking Stones (1978), Winter Work (1983), The News and Weather (1987), Eye to Eye (1992) and The Deerfield Series: Strength of Heart (1997). His selected poems, News of the World, was published in the US by Wake Forest University Press in 1993. A new collection of poems, The Company of Horses, appeared in September 2007. Fallon received the 1993 O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award from the Irish American Cultural Institute. He has been Poet in Residence at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and, in the Spring of 2000 he was the inaugural Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, PA, which conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate. In 2003 he was elected to Aosdána, the association which honours artists who have made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland. He lives with his family in Loughcrew in County Meath.

Readings will be followed by bookselling and signing. If you have any questions, please contact the University Professors Program at (617) 353-4020 or Meg Tyler (mtyler@bu.edu).

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