ASHBERY: THIS THURSDAY SEP 11TH 8pm

The Visiting Writers Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
invites you to a poetry reading by John Ashbery on Thursday, September
11, at 8 pm in Memorial Hall. For more than 40 years, the VWS has
brought outstanding poets and writers to the university campus for
public readings of new work.

John Ashbery is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry, including
Some Trees(1956), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award,
and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which won the Pulitzer
Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. His
recent books are Collected Poems 1956-1987 (2008), Notes from the
Air: Selected Later Poems (2007), and A Worldly Country (2007). His
many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, and
the Wallace Stevens Award. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1980.

Visiting Writers Series events are sponsored by the MFA Program for
Poets and Writers, the Juniper Initiative, the UMass Arts Council, the
UMass Alumni Association, the Vice Provost of Research, the English
Department, and the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts.

All events are free and open to the public. Memorial Hall is
handicapped accessible.