Longenbach Longenbach, the author of several highly regarded critical works on modern poetry, will read from his own recently published first collection of poems as the series continues Thursday, October 29. His reading will be given at 8 p.m. in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library. Longenbach is the Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Republic , The Nation , The Yale Review , and The Best American Poetry 1995 . This fall the University of Chicago Press has published his first collection, Threshold , as part of the Phoenix Poets series.
Threshold explores changes in perception and rediscovery of the mundane.
The subject is treated without melodrama on one side or complacency on the other. Longenbach's research in modern literature has produced four books of literary criticism, most recently Modern Poetry After Modernism . He also has written numerous articles and reviews for such publications as Southwest Review , New York Times Book Review , The Nation , and The Yale Review . The Plutzik Series, one of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary reading programs, was established in 1962 to honor the work of Hyam Plutzik, a distinguished poet and Deane Professor of Poetry and Rhetoric at the University. Admission to both readings is free.