Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Ellen Bryant Voigt on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

Ellen Bryant Voigt was born and raised on a farm in Virginia and moved to Vermont in 1969. She is the author of nine collections of poetry including: The Collected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2023); Headwaters (W.W. Norton, 2013); and Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006 (W.W. Norton, 2007). Voigt’s honors include Pushcart Prizes, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poets’ Prize, the 2002 Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library; grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; and fellowships from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, as well as the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations.

Voigt has served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and as the Vermont State Poet. She now lives in Cabot, Vermont and St. Paul, Minnesota.