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Award Winning Trilingual Poet to Speak at Monmouth
Jennifer Grotz, an award winning poet who is fluent in not only English, but also French and Polish, will be reading some of her poetry at Monmouth University on Tuesday, April 26 at 4 p.m.
Over the course of the past year, Monmouth University has held quite the successful “Visiting Writer’s Series,” at Wilson Hall. Next Tuesday, April 26, the school will conclude it’s 2010-2011 visiting writers series season with an appearance by renowned poet Jennifer Grotz.
Ms. Grotz will be appearing at Wilson Hall at 4:30 p.m. She is currently a professor at the University of Rochester, and she has previously won the prestigious Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize. During this performance, she will read from many of her works and talk about her biggest influences over the course of her career.
She began her career writing essays and reviews that were featured in various publications like the Virginia Quarterly Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review and The Washington Post.
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One fascinating aspect of Ms. Grotz’s life is that she is literate in many languages. Not only is she fluent in French, but she is fluent in Polish as well. She has translated poetry in both of these languages to English, and some of the translations from the French and Polish poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry International, Tri-Quarterly, Antioch Review, Agni Online, Circumference and New European Poets.
Ms. Grotz will be coming to Monmouth University to promote her newest book of poetry, The Needle. Earlier, in 2003, she published a book of poems called Cusp, and in 2001, she put out her first book of poetry in a collection entitled Not Body.
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Her latest book, The Needle, takes a look at various twentieth century traditions found in both Poland and the United States.
Along with winning the Katherine Bakeless Nason Poetry Prize, Ms. Grotz has received numerous other poetry prizes as well. Some of these awards include the New Writing Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the 2011 Pushcart Prize.
This event is free of charge and is presented by the Center of Distinction for the Arts of Monmouth University’s West Long Branch Campus.
