The Hastings Room Reading Series presents

The Seamus Heaney

Memorial Reading
Wednesday
29 Aug 2018 @7pm
First Church
Congregationalist
11 Garden Street
near Harvard Square

Polished linoleum shone there. Brass taps shone.

The china cups were very white and big—
An unchipped set with sugar bowl and jug…
“Clearances” from The Haw Lantern

W i t h g u e s t r e a d e r s—
Daniel Tobin is the author of eight books of poems, most recently of The Stone in the Air, his suite
of versions from the German of Paul Celan (Salmon Poetry, 2018). Stephan Schneider calls the
translation “lucid and lyrical.” Tobin’s many honors include the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry,
"The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, and
creative writing fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation.

Mary Buchinger is the author of three collections of poetry e i n f ü h l u n g/in feeling (2018, Main
Street Rag), Aerialist (2015, Gold Wake Press), and Roomful of Sparrows (2008, Finishing Line). She has
been a featured reader at the Library of Congress, and is President of the New England Poetry Club
founded in 1915 by Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken.

Marc Vincenz has published twelve books of poetry, including, most recently, Becoming the
Sound of Bees (Ampersand Press, 2016), Leaning into the Infinite (Dos Madres Press, 2018) and
The Syndicate of Water & Light (Station Hill, 2018). He is also a prolific translator and has
translated from the German, Romanian and French. His work has received fellowships and
grants from the Swiss Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.