Events

Since 1996, the Delta of Connecticut Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa has invited a poet to read at the spring initiation ceremony. Participants have included:

2006
Yibing Huang
Assistant Professor of Chinese, department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Connecticut College

Works include: a Chinese-English bilingual book of poetry, Stone Turtle: Poems 1987-2000 (Godavaya, 2005), which he translated into English, prefaced by the renowned Asian American writer Russell Leong, and reviewed in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and Amerasia Journal. His poetry work has been published in China since the 1980s, and is included in many prestigious anthologies. During the 90's in Beijing, he quickly established himself as a poet under the pen name "Mai Mang," and was closely associated with a new generation of young poets based in Beijing.

2001
Charles O. Hartman
Professor of English, Poet in Residence and Co-Director of Creative Writing Program at Connecticut College
Works include: Glass Enclosure, True North, and The Pigfoot Rebellion. His most recent collection, The Long View, was published in 2000. He is co-founder with Wendy Battin of the Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA), where out-of-print volumes of poetry are preserved on-line and can be accessed free of charge by anyone with internet access.

2000
Rosanna Warren
University Professor at Boston University
A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
Works include: Stained Glass, which won the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and a translation of Euripides's Suppliant Women (with Stephen Scully)
Guggenheim Fellow
Recipient of the Lila Wallace Readers' Digest Award, among other honors.

1999
Kate Rushin
Director, Center of African American Studies; Visiting Writer, African American Studies Program; and Adjunct Lecturer in English, Wesleyan University
Author of The Black Back-Ups
Recipient of The Rose Low Rome Memorial Poetry Prize and the Grolier Poetry Prize

1998
Michael Collier '76
Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Author of The Ledge (2000), The Neighbor (1995), The Folded Heart (1989), and The Clasp and Other Poems (1986).
Recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the Discovery/The Nation award, among other honors.

1996
J. D. McClatchy
Editor of The Yale Review
Collections of poems: Scenes from Another Life (1981), Stars Principal (1986), The Rest of the Way (1990), and Ten Commandments (1998)
Collections of literary essays White Paper (1989) and Twenty Questions (1998)
Author of four opera libretti, most recently "Emmeline" for Tobias Picker, commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera.
A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets

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