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For Immediate Release —February 19, 2009
Yale Poet J.D.
McClatchy to Present SUNY Geneseo Phi Beta Kappa Lecture GENESEO,
N.Y. — Renowned poet and librettist J. D. McClatchy, professor of English at
Yale, will present “Words into Music:
Adventures in the World of Opera” as SUNY Geneseo’s Phi Beta Kappa
lecturer March 4. The lecture is set for
1:30 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 204 and is open to the public without charge. McClatchy
has written six collections of poems including “Hazmat,” which was nominated
for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Other
collections include “Scenes from Another Life,” “The Rest of the Way,” “Stars
Principal,” “Mercury Dressing” and “Ten Commandments.” He also has composed 13 libretti for
composers like William Schuman, Ned Rorem, Lorin Maazel, Lowell Liebermann, and
Elliot Goldenthal. McClatchy’s
fiction and translations are regularly published in The New Yorker, The
New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic,
and other publications. He also has
edited numerous books and has been editor of The Yale Review since 1991. McClatchy
was educated at Georgetown and Yale, where he received his doctorate in 1974.
Before teaching at Yale, he taught at Princeton, Columbia, UCLA, and Johns
Hopkins University. He served as a
chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the following year was elected to membership in the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. The State
of Connecticut awarded McClatchy the 2000 Governor’s Arts Medal. McClatchy’s
presentation is sponsored by the SUNY Geneseo Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the
nation’s oldest undergraduate honors society.
Geneseo is the only undergraduate college in the SUNY system to be
granted a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The
Alpha Delta of New York chapter was installed in January, 2004. ### This
release was written by Carey Burgess, a senior communications major, serving as
a media relations intern in the Office of College Communications. |
