America Presents

Robin Davidson

The next American Thursday meeting will be held on April 22 at 3:00 p.m. The speaker will be Professor Robin Davidson. Her discussion topic will be "Postcards from the Volcano: Reading Twentieth-Century American Poetry in 2004."

ROBIN DAVIDSON was born in Trieste, Italy in 1953, to American parents and has lived most of her life in the United States. She received her BA in French from the University of Texas at Austin, and her MA and PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston under the direction of poets Edward Hirsch and Adam Zagajewski. She has published poems and translations in such American literary magazines as Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, AGNI and The Paris Review. She has received several awards for her verse, including an Individual Artist Award from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and the 1996 Abiko International Poetry Prize (Japan), and is co-translating the poems of Ewa Lipska from Polish into English. She teaches English for the University of Houston-Downtown and directs a program for first-generation college students in their first three semesters of university study. She is currently serving as a Fulbright Professor of American literature at the Institute of English Philology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
RSVP: Please let us know by April 20 if you plan to attend
(by e-mail: AmericanThursday@state.gov or by phone: 504-2395).

Please arrive at the Piekna 14A entrance of the U.S. Embassy between 14:30 -14:45 April 22 to allow time for a security check. Please bring an identification document that includes a photograph. Cell phones must be left at the reception desk.