Sunday, August 05, 2007

Charles Simic, 2007 Poet Laureate: Writer, Poet, Editor, Teacher and Translator



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Charles Simic is the professor of English at the University of New Hamshire. He is a prolific poet and essay writer. He has published his books in various languages including French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian etc. He is the new Poet laureate for 2007. What can we learn from him? In 1990, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems.

A Fly in the Soup by Charles Simic
A Wedding in Hell by Charles Simic
Another Republic by Charles Simic & Mark Strand
Charon's Cosmology by Charles Simic
Classic Ballroom Dances by Charles Simic
Jackstraws by Charles Simic
My Noiseless Entourage by Charles Simic
Nine Poems by Charles Simic
Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk by Charles Simic
The Horse Has Six Legs by Charles Simic
The Voice at 3:00 A.M. by Charles Simic
Unending Blues by Charles Simic
Walking the Black Cat by Charles Simic
Weather Forecast for Utopia and Vicinity by Charles Simic
White by Charles Simic

Some of the honors, accolades and occupations of Charles Simic include:

Guest editor of The Best American Poetry 1992
Elected the Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000 (he still holds this position)
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation