John Balaban, author of twelve books of poetry and prose, will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 10 in Yeager Auditorium on the Elon University campus. Balaban is author of “Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems,” which won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1998. He has twice been nominated for the National Book Award, has won the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize, and has had a National Poetry Series selection. In 2003 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Balaban’s most recent volume of poetry is “Path, Crooked Path.” In 2000, he published “Spring Essence,” a volume of translations of the 18th century Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong. He is Poet-in-Residence at N.C. State University, where he teaches in the MFA program. Books will be available for sale and signing after the reading.
Balaban’s appearance is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Elon College Fund for Excellence in the Arts and Sciences.