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Librarian of Congress Appoints Louise Glück Poet LaureateLibrarian of Congress James Billington named Louise Glück as the new poet laureate of the United States August 29. She will take up her duties October 21 by opening LC’s annual literary series with a reading from her work.Glück has published nine volumes of poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize 10 years ago for The Wild Iris and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 1985 work The Triumph of Achilles. She has also won many other prizes and honors for her writing, including Guggenheims, National Endowment for the Arts grants, and the Bollingen Prize. “Louise Glück will bring to the Library of Congress a strong, vivid, deep poetic voice, accomplished in a series of book-length poetic cycles,” said Billington. “Her great interest in young poets will enliven the poet laureate’s office during the year. The $30,000-a-year post is largely an opportunity for the appointee to work on her own projects and “bring new emphasis to the position,” but it also involves giving readings, consulting in poetry, and organizing a literary event. Billy Collins, whom Glück succeeds, instituted the Poetry 180 website, designed to bring a poem a day into high school classrooms. Posted September 1, 2003. |
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