NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The Dean of FASS and the Department of English are delighted to announce that the 2017-2018 Munro Beattie Lecture will be delivered by acclaimed poet Alice Notley. Celebrated as one of America’s greatest living poets, Notley is the author of over forty books of poetry and critical prose. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious literary awards, including the Griffin International Poetry Prize for her book Disobedience in 2002. The Mysteries of Small Houses was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999.
Entitled “Remember Before You Were Born," Notley's Munro Beattie lecture is concerned with her attempts to remember the time before her birth, as well as her existence as an infant, in order to invite that memory/knowledge into her present life as a poet. Flouting the boundaries of genre, the lecture is written in prose, but sounds “a lot like a poem,” and continues Notley’s ongoing exploration of the possibilities and limitations of language in articulating a fuller perception of the self and its relation to the world.