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DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 5:30pm. Followed by book signing.\n\n \n\nArthur 
 Sze is a poet\, translator\, and editor\, and in 2025 he was named the 25th
  Poet Laureate of the United States.\n\n \n\nHe is the author of twelve boo
 ks of poetry\, including Into the Hush (2025) and The White Orchard: Select
 ed Interviews\, Essays\, and Poems (2025)\; The Glass Constellation: New an
 d Collected Poems (2021)\; Sight Lines (2019)\, for which he won the Nation
 al Book Award\; Compass Rose (2014)\; The Ginkgo Light (2009)\; Quipu (2005
 )\; The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998 (1998)\; and Archipelago (1995). H
 e also authored Transient Worlds: On Translating Poetry (forthcoming from C
 opper Canyon Press\, 2026)\, The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Po
 etry (2024)\, and edited Chinese Writers on Writing (2010). His poetry has 
 been translated into fifteen languages\, including Chinese\, Dutch\, German
 \, Portuguese\, and Spanish.\n\n \n\nSze received the 2025 Bollingen Prize 
 for lifetime achievement in American poetry\, the 2024 Rebekah Johnson Bobb
 itt National Prize for Poetry\, 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Lit
 erature award\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, 
 the Jackson Poetry Prize\, a Lannan Literary Award\, and a Guggenheim Fello
 wship\, among others.\n\n \n\nA chancellor emeritus of the Academy of Ameri
 can Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, he wa
 s the 2023–2024 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford University. Professor emerit
 us at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)\, Sze was the first poet
  laureate of Santa Fe\, where he lives with his wife\, the poet Carol Molda
 w.\n\n \n\nPresented by Comparative Media Studies/Writing and the William C
 orbett Poetry Series\, with Lit@MIT and the MIT Press Bookstore.
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SUMMARY:A Reading with Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
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