National Book Award-winning poet and Princeton alumnus, Nathaniel Mackey, Class of 1969, reads from his work. Mackey is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, a multi-volume fiction work, two books of criticism, and co-editor of two anthologies. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry from the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Cosponsored by the Department of English Department with support from the Bain-Swiggett Fund.
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