BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will address the Illinois Wesleyan University Founders’ Day Convocation at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in Westbrook Auditorium of Presser Hall (1210 N. Park St., Bloomington). The event is free and open to the public.
Founders’ Day honors the 30 founders who signed the charter for the University in 1850. In celebration, The Ames Library will hold its annual exhibit highlighting the documents from the University’s founding, including Illinois Wesleyan’s “birth certificate.”
Graham is an internationally renown author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Graham has also edited several anthologies, including Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. Her works have been translated for publication in German, Spanish and Italian.