Lannan Readings & Conversations

Anne Carson

with Brighde Mullins
Wednesday March 21 2001

Reading, March 21, 2001
Conversation, March 21, 2001

Brighde Mullins Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics who lives in Montreal. Her books include Men in the Off Hours; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater; Glass, Irony, and God; and Eros the Bittersweet. Ms. Carson, who received a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, has said, "I will do anything to avoid boredom…It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough." Ms. Carson teaches at McGill University.

Anne Carson Bio and Cross Links


Brighde Mullins Brighde Mullins teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and coordinates a poetry series at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City.

Brighde Mullins Bio and Cross Links