{"97311":{"#nid":"97311","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First Annual Bourne Poetry Reading Features U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize Winner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College, the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and Thomas Lux, the Bourne Chair in Poetry, present the first Annual Bourne Poetry Reading, an evening of stellar poetic talent, to the Georgia Tech and Atlanta community on Monday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Ferst Center for the Arts. The event is free and open to the public but requires a ticket. [The event sold out two weeks in advance]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Honorable Andrew Young, former Mayor of Atlanta, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Chairman of GoodWorks International, will introduce poets Lucille Clifton, one of America\u0027s most revered poets, winner of the National Book Award and a past Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland; Billy Collins, the best-selling poet in the country and current U.S. Poet Laureate; Stephen Dobyns, acclaimed poet and author of twenty novels, now translated into twenty languages, two of them, movies; and Rita Dove, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a past U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore poetry events are planned throughout the 2002-2003 school year as part of a bold commitment to bring the very best poets and writers in the country to Tech, to put poetry in students\u0027 curriculum, and reach beyond the campus to give the gift of poetry to the City of Atlanta. These programs are made possible by two endowments established to bring poetry and writing to campus by Industrial Engineering alumnus H. Bruce McEver, a successful businessman and a published poet, and professor emeritus Henry C. Bourne, Jr. In fact, these endowed Chairs are attracting some of the best poetry talent to spend a semester teaching Georgia Tech students and reaching out to the Atlanta community as the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the Bourne Chair in Poetry, Lux will invite a different internationally known poet or writer to hold the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing during the spring semester each year. Stephen Dobyns, will be the McEver chairholder in spring 2003, and Billy Collins, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, will sit as the McEver Visiting Chair in Writing, spring 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022When we hear that astounded \u0022\u0027Poetry at Tech?\u0027\u0022 says Lux, \u0022we are delighted. The Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry and the H. Bruce McEver Visiting Chair in Writing are extraordinary gifts, and we will make extraordinary efforts to honor their generosity and vision.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn spring 2001 Lux was the first holder of the McEver Visiting Chair, and this fall he returned as the permanent Bourne Chair in Poetry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is a privilege,\u0022 says Lux, \u0022to come to Georgia Tech at a time when it is expanding and enriching its humanities programs, and I intend to serve the educational needs and creative quests of Tech students with a whole heart and all the energies and experience I have in the field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College, the School of Literature, Communication and Culture, and Thomas Lux, the Bourne Chair in Poetry, present the first Annual Bourne Poetry Reading, an evening of stellar poetic talent, to the Georgia Tech and Atlanta community on Monday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Ferst Center for the Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2002-10-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:15","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ivan Allen College"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ferstcenter2.gatech.edu\/general_info\/directions.htm","title":"Directions to Ferst Center for the Arts"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/lcc.html","title":"School of Literature, Communication and Culture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/poetry.html","title":"Upcoming Poetry Events at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"42931","name":"Performances"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Grovenstein\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECommunications \u0026amp; Marketing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=lgrovenste3\u0022\u003EContact Lisa Grovenstein\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-8835\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.grovenstein@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}