Marilyn Hacker, honored poet, translator, and newly appointed director of CCNY's MA program in English literature and creative writing, read excerpts from her work to an overflow crowd in the college library archives on Wednesday evening, December 1.

Professor Hacker is the author of nine books, including the 1975 National Book Award winning Presentation Piece, Winter Numbers, the 1995 dual winner of the Lenore Marshall Award of the Nation magazine and the Lamda Literary Award, and Selected Poems which won the Poets' Prize in 1996.  Her next book, Squares and Courtyards, will be published in early 2000.

Of her work, Hayden Carruth writes, "Through the terrors of death, history, pain, and love, Marilyn Hacker's mind moves like a laser beam.  These poems are among the most incisive pieces of writing we have.  As for the writing, the poetry, it is brilliant."

Coping with the waning stages of a bout of bronchitis, Professor Hacker gamely projected to the large audience listening raptly to moving pieces read in the author's expressive voice.  Those present had an opportunity to speak with the author at the reception following.

The evening, sponsored by the Friends of the City College Library and the Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts at CCNY, is part of a continuing series of literary events held in the library.

March Free at Last: a History of The Abolition of Slavery In America Cohen Library Atrium

April-June Dr. Frank Netter, the Michelangelo of Medical  Illustration Exhibit Cohen Library Atrium

National Library Week Events: April 10 3rd Annual William Matthews Memorial Lecture Russell Banks Library Archives, 4:00 pm

April 11 Netter Exhibit Opening Reception 4 pm Cohen Library Atrium (see p.4 for details)

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