Poet Frieda Hughes to Read at Smith College

The Poetry Center at Smith College presents a reading by British author and artist Frieda Hughes at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 9, in Wright Hall Auditorium at Smith College. Hughes, who is the daughter of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and American Poet Sylvia Plath, will read from her first book of poetry, "Wooroloo."

Hughes' poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and London Magazine. Her work unites a painterly vision with the poetic landscape, exploring both the animal world and the panoply of human interrelations-from the passions and disillusions of love to the fulfillment and disappointments of family. Hughes is also a writer and illustrator of children's books, with six books in print, and a prize-winning painter whose work has appeared in group shows and in one-woman exhibitions in Britain, the United States, and Australia-where she lived for a time in a small village called Wooroloo. Born in London in 1960, Hughes now resides there full time with her husband, the painter Laszlo Lukacs.

This reading is co-sponsored by the Poetry Center and the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College. Bookselling and signing will follow the reading, which is free and open to the public.

October 20, 1999