N.Z. POETRY READINGS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31153, 1 September 1966, Page 5

N.Z. POETRY READINGS

U.S. Meetings Arranged "The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, August 31. An invitation by the Library of Congress to read from his own and other New Zealand poets’ work has been accepted by Dr. T. A. M. Curnow, of the University of Auckland. The reading, on November 7, is one of those arranged by the library under its Gertrude Clark Whittali endowment to bring leading American and foreign poets to Washington. Dr. Curnow is on refresher leave from Auckland University, where he is a senior lecturer in English. In the United States he will undertake research into the regional backgrounds of the American poet Wallace Stevens. For this research he has a grant from the New Zealand Universities’ Research Grants Committee, and he will visit, in particular, the Gulf parts of Florida, the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York City. Dr. Curnow has also accepted invitations to read at the University of Cincinnati, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, D.C., and at the universities of Rochester, Syracuse, and Potsdam, with others comprising the Upstate New York Poetry Circuit, where he will be one of the two visiting poets of the year.