ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.For more information, contact Christina Bolio (860) 297-2036

The Trinity College English Department invites you to

THE ALLAN K. SMITH READING SERIES SPRING 2013

A RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING WILLFOLLOW THE READING.

Wednesday, March 67:00 p.m.

Reese Room, Smith House

“Some poets transfigure the everyday, others depict it as mean, but Grennan—with fresh, accurate words and with feelings that ring

true—gives us the fullness of it.” —Richard Wilbur

“Few poets are as generous as Eamon Grennan in the sheer volume of delight his

poems convey, and fewer still are as attentive to the available marvels of the earth.”

—Billy Collins

“Grennan is a writer of plainspoken reverence...whose effect is like afternoon

light hitting ordinary objects: it illuminates, clarifies, and directs our gaze toward what it

is we love but often overlook.” —The New Yorker

Eamon GrennanEamon Grennan is from Dublin and was educated at University College Dublin and Harvard University. Until his retirement, he was Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College, and he has also taught courses in the graduate writing programs of NYU and Columbia University. His poetry collections include Still Life With Waterfall, The Quick of It, Matter of Fact, Out of Sight: New and Selected Poems, and But The Body, and he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and spends as much time as he can in the West of Ireland.