EVENT: Hopwood Awards Ceremony. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Howard will lecture as part of the Hopwood Awards Ceremony. Howard is the author of more than 11 volumes of poetry including Untitled Subjects, which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. He has published more than 150 translations and won the American Book Award in 1983 for translation.

TIME: 3:30 p.m.

PLACE: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St., SPONSOR: Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of U-M’s class of 1905, one-fifth of Hopwood’s estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing. The first awards were made in 1931, and today the Hopwood Program offers approximately $120,000 in prizes every year to young aspiring writers at the University of Michigan.

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The Hopwood Program at the University of Michigan  

E-mail: jserwach@umich.edu