{"id":69676,"date":"2004-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/poet-norah-pollard-to-read-work-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2004-01-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T00:00:00","slug":"poet-norah-pollard-to-read-work-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/01\/poet-norah-pollard-to-read-work-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Norah Pollard to read work at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Jan Wenzel, 401-874-2116<\/p>\n


\nPollard is daughter of Seabiscuit\u2019s jockey <\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013January 29, 2004–溏心vlog免费B站 alumna Norah Pollard will give a reading of her poetry at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n


\nSponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for the Humanities, Department of English, and Writers Collective, the reading will take place in the Hoffmann Room, Independence Hall, Kingston Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Copies of Pollard\u2019s new book, Leaning In will be available for sale.<\/p>\n


\nThe poet is the daughter of John “Red” Pollard, Seabiscuit\u2019s jockey, whose story is told in Laura Hillenbrand\u2019s best-selling book, Seabiscuit\u2014An American Legend. <\/p>\n


\nPollard\u2019s poem about her father in Leaning In presents an intimate and compelling portrayal of the complex man who was the most renowned jockey of the 1930s. Because of her special understanding of him, the poet was featured in the nationally broadcast PBS documentary “Seabiscuit.” <\/p>\n


\nThe film “Seabiscuit” was released last summer by Universal Studios starring Tobey Maguire as Red Pollard and Jeff Bridges as Seabiscuit\u2019s trainer. The movie was just nominated for six Academy Awards. <\/p>\n


\nLeaning In also depicts the poet’s passionate youth and turbulent later years. The poems are informed by unbridled grief and ecstasy, as well as fascination with the natural world. Laura Hillenbrand writes: “In Leaning In, Norah Pollard has created a work of singular radiance, an elegant, truthful, resonant collection. It should be read, reread, and remembered.” <\/p>\n


\nAnd this from poet Gray Jacobik: “The most heartbreaking poetry seems to require true heartbreak to inform it\u2014would there were a less expensive way to make art. The poems in Norah Pollard\u2019s Leaning In have spared her, and us, nothing of life\u2019s emotional and spiritual extractions. \u2018Essential Oils\u2014are wrung,\u2019 as Dickinson would have it. In skillful, compassionate, wise and unflinching poems, we\u2019re reminded that the works that touch us most deeply are unself-conscious in their strategies, revelatory in their authenticity, and \u2018cost\u2019 the most to make. Fortunately, when we surrender to them, the rewards, as here with Pollard, are inestimable.” <\/p>\n


\nAt various points in her life, Pollard has been a folk singer, waitress, nanny, teacher, solderer, and print shop calligrapher. She currently works at a Bridgeport steel company. In 1983 she received the Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Bridgeport, and for several years was editor of The Connecticut River Review. She lives in Stratford, Conn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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