Visiting Writer Eavan Boland

Introduction by Brighde Mullins, Director of the Master of Professional Writing Program.

Reading performed by Eavan Boland. Eavan Boland was born in Dublin and educated in London, New York, and Trinity College, Dublin. The author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction, she is a major voice in both Irish and world poetry. Her collections include New Territory (1967), The War Horse (1975), The Journey (1987), The Lost Land (1998), Domestic Violence (2007), and New Collected Poems (2008). She is the author of a prose memoir, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, and of the forthcoming A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet. Her editions, anthologies and translations include Selected Poems of Charlotte Mew, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (co-edited with Mark Strand) and After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets, a translation of poets writing in German.

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