Washington University's Robert Duncan Papers

Modern Literature Collection

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Modern Literature Audio Archive

Poets Carl Phillips, Jeff Hamilton, Peter O'Leary, and Nick Admussen will read selections from Duncan's work as well as their own. Reception after.
All are welcome to attend.

The Modern Literature Reading Series celebrates the careers and influence of authors in the Modern Literature Collection by inviting writers to read from their work.

About the Poets        
Nick Admussen is a senior majoring in English and Chinese. His poems have appeared in The Eliot Review. 
Jeff Hamilton is finishing his dissertation on Robert Duncan and Laura Riding at Washington University. His recent poems and essays have appeared in Natural Bridge, River Styx, American Book Review and The Denver Quarterly.  He co-founded and edits Delmar, a literary journal. 
Peter O'Leary's first book of poetry - Watchfulness - will be published in the fall, 2001, by Spuyten Duyvil (NY).  His chapbook Auspices is also forthcoming from Spectacular Diseases (UK).  He wrote a dissertation on Robert Duncan for the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in 1999. He is also the editor of  To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson (Talisman House, 2000) and of The Shrubberies, a collection of the last poems of Ronald Johnson, forthcoming from Flood Editions (Chicago).  He presently teaches in the Religious Studies department at Webster University. 
Carl Phillips is the author of four books of poetry, Pastoral, From the Devotions, Cortège, and In the Blood as well as a forthcoming book of poems, The Tether.  He has received prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University in Saint Louis.