Local Poet To Appear At Muhlenberg
Len Roberts, author of eight books and three chapbooks of poetry, will give a public reading Monday, November 3, 7 p.mTuesday, October 28, 2003 10:50 AM
Len Roberts, author of eight books and three chapbooks of poetry, will give a public reading Monday, November 3, 7 p.m., in the Recital Hall, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College. The reading is free and open to the public.
Len Roberts has been a professor of English at Northampton Community College since 1974. His most recent book, The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems, was published in 2001.
In 1988-89, Roberts served as a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary, where he began his prolific work translating Hungarian poetry into English. In 1999, he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Award, and has received four grants from the Soros Foundation to continue his translation work. Roberts' work has received a Guggenheim Award, two National Endowment for the Arts awards, six Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards and a Witter Bynner Award.
Roberts' reading is part of the Living Writers series, sponsored by Writers at Muhlenberg. Poet Lucille Clifton will give the final reading of the series, Monday, November 24.
