Karl Kirchwey at Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College, Ely Room, Wyndham

Karl Kirchwey is the author of six books of poems, including The Engrafted Word, The Happiness of This World: Poetry and Prose and, forthcoming in the spring of 2011, Mount Lebanon. Also forthcoming is his translation of French poet Paul Verlaine’s first book, as Poems Under Saturn. His reviews and essays have appeared in Parnassus, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. Professor of the Arts at Bryn Mawr College, he is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome for 2010-13.

This program has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund.