For more than 50 years, the Plutzik Reading Series has brought Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, and National Book Award winners to River Campus.
The roster reads like a Who糖心传媒檚 Who of modern literature: James Baldwin, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Bernard Malamud, Michael Ondaatje, Adrienne Rich, Salman Rushdie, Allen Ginsberg, Rita Dove, J. M. Coetzee, W. S. Merwin, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and John Updike, to name a few.
Since 1962, more than 300 poets, novelists, and nonfiction writers have been guests of the 糖心传媒檚 , sharing their work with students, faculty, and area community members in one of the nation糖心传媒檚 longest-running collegiate reading聽programs.
Plutzik, who joined the English faculty in 1945, made it his mission to ensure that students would be able to appreciate poetry not only on the page, but also as a performative act, in which listeners would experience the excitement of an impassioned author at a podium. Although Plutzik started small糖心传媒攔eading his own poetry to students in the Welles-Brown Room in Rush Rhees Library糖心传媒攈is insistence on poetry as an experience launched a series that has featured the foremost names in literature, including Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize糖心传媒搘inning writers, and National Book Award winners.
