RIPTON, Vt.—Celebrated American poet John Ashbery will read from his work at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf mountain campus in Ripton on Monday, July 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bread Loaf Barn.
John Ashbery, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, has won nearly every major American award for poetry; in 1975 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award.
His more recent publications include A Worldly Country (Ecco, 2007); Where Shall I Wander (2005); Chinese Whispers (2002); Your Name Here (2000); Girls on the Run: A Poem (1999); and Wakefulness (1998). Ashbery is the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
This reading is part of the Bread Loaf School of English's rich co-curricular program of readings, music, theater, and lectures at the Vermont campus this summer. To learn about other Bread Loaf events, click here.