DURHAM, N.H. -- Acclaimed poet Jean Valentine will read from her work and hold a Q&A session Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union Building, Theatre I, as part of the University of New Hampshire Writers Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965 and the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003. Her 11th book of poetry is Break the Glass (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). Her new book, Shirt in Heaven, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2015. The recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, Valentine has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia. She lives in New York City.

The UNH Writers Series is made possible through the support of the MacArthur/Simic and the Edmund G. Miller funds. For more information, contact the English Department at (603) 862-1313.