Poetry Center to Host Reading

The Smith College Poetry Center will host a reading by award-winning poet Alice Fulton at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Stoddard Auditorium.

The author of numerous books of poems including "Sensual Math," "Powers of Congress," "Palladium," and "Dance Script With Electric Ballerina," Fulton has been called "Dickinson's postmodern heir" by Publisher's Weekly and her writing has been characterized by the New Yorker as "electrifying" and "deeply moving."

Through her poems, Fulton explores the interplay of divine mystery and scientific fact without sacrificing emotional richness. Her lively, distinctive style and buoyant faith are most evident. Fulton's poetry brings us face to face with the veil of language until we are immersed in poetry's powers of disguise and revelation.

Fulton has received numerous awards for her poetry and has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (the "genius" grant), the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.

Her work has been included in five editions of the Best American Poetry series and have appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry, Parnassus, the New Yorker and the Paris Review.

The reading is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. Bookselling and signing will follow.