Eamon Grennan, Northeast Poetry Center’s Distinguished Visiting Poet, Oct.8, 4 PM

     Eamon Grennan, the prominent Irish-born poet, will appear as the Northeast Poetry Center’s Distinguished Visiting Poet for the fall of 2011. He will perform on October 8 at 4 p.m. at the College of Poetry, 7 West Street, Warwick in the rear room. Reception to follow.

     Eamon Grennan is the author of Matter of Fact, Out of Breath, and fifteen other books. Billy Collins has praised “the sheer volume of delight his poems convey.”   Though he says Irish language poetry has been a significant influence for his own work, he has also cited American poets including Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop as important for him.   Grennan has published translations of Leopardi and Sophocles.

     Born in Dublin, he has lived primarily in the United States since his youth and taught for thirty years at Vassar. Grennan studied at University College, Dublin, where he met poets Derek Mahon and Eavan Boland, and then at Harvard University. His first book, Wildly for Days, was published in 1983. Since then, Grennan's career has been long, productive and distinguished.

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