Canceled! Visiting Writers Series: Rae Armantrout

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout will visit Northwest as the next guest of the Visiting Writers Series and present her work from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the J.W. Jones Student Union Boardroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Armantrout is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets and has published more than two dozen books of poetry and prose. Her 2009 poetry book, “Versed,” earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, and it was a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award.

Her collections also include “Go Figure” (2024), “Finalists” (2022), “Conjure” (2020), “Itself” (2015), “Partly: New and Selected Poems” (2016), “Entanglements” (2017) and “Wobble” (2018), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Armantrout also published a short memoir, “True” (1998), and her “Collected Prose” was published in 2007 with Singing Horse Press.

Her work has been celebrated in numerous anthologies, including “The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry,” and she has received prestigious fellowships and awards that include a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Armantrout resides in Everett, Washington, and is a professor emerita at the University of California, San Diego, where she taught for more than 20 years.

The Visiting Writers Series is designed to enrich Northwest’s educational mission while promoting the values of community, civil discourse and self-expression. Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corporation, Green Tower Press and the Department of Language, Literature and Writing sponsor the series.