Daniel Tobin, Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m.

WHEN: Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Reilley Room, Reilly Hall, Le Moyne College

The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Daniel Tobin's poems have appeared in The Nation, The Times Literary Supplement, Stand, Poetry, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, DoubleTake, Poetry Ireland Review, and many other journals. Among his awards are the "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Robert Frost Fellowship. His first book of poems, Where the World is Made, was co-winner of the 1998 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize. His second book of poems, Double Life, has been published by Louisiana State University Press (2004). His third book of poems, The Narrows, will be published by Four Way Books in 2005. The University Press of Kentucky published his book of criticism, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and The Notre Dame University Press will publish The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, which he has edited (2004). His work has been anthologized in Hammer and Blaze, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, and elsewhere. He has also published numerous essays on modern and contemporary poetry both in the United States and abroad. He is presently Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston.