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The 2006-2007 Annual Report

Poetic Traditions

Works from three poet-professors spanning more than 60 years were on display at Rush Rhees Library this year in an exhibit titled "Poets at the University: Three Generations."

The University has a tradition of keeping poets on the faculty and offering poetry readings in the classroom and in the larger community. "Three Generations" highlighted faculty poets from 1945 to today—Hyam Plutzik, Jarold Ramsey, and James Longenbach.

The works were featured in the Hilfiker Gallery of the Rare Books and Special Collections Department on the second floor of the library.

Longenbach, the H. Gilmore Professor of English, is still on the faculty and was also featured in the Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series this spring. Plutzik was a distinguished poet and Deane Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric at the University until his death in 1962.

The series is primarily funded by Plutzik's family through the Hyam Plutzik Poetry Series Endowment.


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