The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Rae Armantrout.

Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (2008), Rae Armantrout is a native Californian whose poems are masterful contradictions; according to Robert Creeley, her poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." He adds, "I don’t think there’s another poet writing who is so consummate in authority and yet so generous to her readers and company alike." She has taught writing at UC San Diego for over two decades. Her poems are telegenically 'regional' filled with bungalows, newscasters and swimming pools yet they ring with an immaterial clarity that quietly subsumes her readers and listeners in a radical and eerily funny vision. Rae Armantrout came up as a poet in the Bay Area, educated at UC Berkeley (AB, 1970), where she studied with Denise Levertov, and San Francisco State (MA, 1975). Subsequently, she was at the center of the first generation of Language Poets, the group in the U.S. most often credited with introducing poetry to postmodernity. Since then Rae Armantrout has forged a growing international reputation--publishing 10 remarkable books of poems. She directed the New Writing Series at UC San Diego for nearly two decades, and co-organized the Page Mother’s Conference in 1999." _{- https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/emeriti-rarmantrout.html}

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