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Front Page September 6, 2000 Poet Maxine Kumin is
Next Convocation Speaker RICHMOND, Indiana Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin will deliver "A Poetry Reading with Asides" at the next Earlham College convocation, 1 p.m. Wednesday, September 13, in Goddard Auditorium. The public is welcome and admission is free. Kumin is the author of a dozen books of poetry, including Up Country: Poems of New England for which she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Her other major poetical works include Connecting the Dots, Looking for Luck (Poets' Prize), and Selected Poems, 1960-1990. She has also authored five novels, a collection of short stories, more than 20 children's books and four books of essays, including Women, Animals, and Vegetables. Her latest book, Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery (W.W. Norton), details her healing after a nearly fatal accident on a Vermont road in 1998. Writing at first by dictation, Kumin guides the reader through her first traumatic days in intensive care then to the rehabilitation center. Though at first words threatened to elude her, writing became a way of maintaining her sanity. She tells of her time "inside the halo," a near-medieval device of pins and metal that leaves her head immobile during her long convalescence. Kumin is currently visiting professor at Florida International University. She has also taught at Davidson College, Pitzer College, the University of Miami, and Princeton University. | |
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