An afternoon with award-winning poet and writer Gary Snyder

March 18, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Orvis Auditorium Add to Calendar

Gary Snyder visits the Mānoa campus for a program after almost 15 years. Snyder is a pioneer in expressing aesthetic links between sustainable environments and his studies of indigenous cultures and Asian traditions.

His Turtle Island received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1975, and a collection of selected poems, No Nature, was a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. Mountains and Rivers without End, a book-length poem, won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1997. Snyder received Japan’s Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize in 2004, and in 2008, he won the Ruth Lilly Prize for achievement in poetry.

Books by Gary Snyder will be available for signing, on sale by the University of Hawai‘i Bookstore, after the reading.

Presented by The Faculty Retirees Association University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, with assistance from the Mānoa Chancellor’s Office, and anonymous donors to the UH Foundation; The Palolo Zen Center; Hana Hou! Magazine; Department of English, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa: Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing.

Special thanks to the Department of Music and the Mānoa chapter of the National Association for Music Education, and the University of Hawai‘i Bookstore.


Ticket Information
Free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
FRAUHM, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Victor Kobayashi, 732-1360, victorko@hawaii.edu

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