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New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Waco. Those were the four stops for arguably the world\u2019s most famous living poet on his brief tour of the U.S.<\/p>\nNew York City, Boston, Atlanta, Waco. Those were the four stops for arguably the world\u2019s most famous living poet on his brief tour of the U.S.<\/p>\n
Monday night, nearly 1,000 people filled Baylor’s Jones Concert Hall for a reading by Ireland\u2019s Seamus Heaney<\/a>, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, on his first visit to Texas since 2006. Heaney’s presentation was a special event of the 19th annual Beall Poetry Festival<\/a>, which will take place at Baylor April 4-6, 2013.<\/p>\n Heaney has been the recipient of dozens of honors for his work, including 15 collections of poems, literary criticism, essays, translations and a play. Among his past professional titles are Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Writer-in-Residence at Harvard. His most recent collection of poems is Human Chain<\/em> (2010). Fifty broadsides of a new Heaney poem written for the occasion, \u201cOn the Gift of a Fountain Pen<\/a>,\u201d were sold at the event.<\/p>\n The coordinator of Heaney\u2019s visit, Dr. Richard Rankin Russell<\/a>, authored an award-winning<\/a> critical study of Heaney\u2019s work in 2010: Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland<\/em><\/a>. That book played a role in persuading<\/a> Heaney, who was scheduled to visit Baylor a few years ago but had to cancel due to health issues, to stop at Baylor on his now infrequent trips to the U.S. Russell, the Beall Poetry Festival’s director and\u00a02012 Baylor Centennial Professor<\/a>, has another Heaney-related book, Seamus Heaney\u2019s Regions<\/em>, under contract and set to be released in late 2014.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Seamus Heaney and all lovers of literature!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Waco. Those were the four stops for arguably the world\u2019s most famous living poet on his brief tour of the U.S. Monday night, nearly 1,000 people filled Baylor’s Jones Concert Hall for a reading by Ireland\u2019s Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, on his first visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}