MFA Writing Program Assistant Director Terry Kennedy with Bob Watson
Robert Watson has published five poetry collections, most
recently The Pendulum: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of
two novels, Three Sides of the Mirror and Lily Lang, and has won
many honors, among them awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He taught at Williams
College, the John Hopkins University, and, for many years, at The University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, where he co-founded both the MFA Writing Program
and The Greensboro Review.
Excerpt from Letter of Support for Jackson Library's Application for the Designation of Literary Landmark
The writers of UNCG, both faculty and students, and also the citizens of
Greensboro, have had for many decades... a wonderful resource in thelibrary,
especially the Special Collections Department and the Jarrell Lecture Hall,
where many of the last century's major literary figures have lectured and read
from their works. These include Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Allen Tate,
Caroline Gordon, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Robert
Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Peter and Eleanor Ross Taylor and, of course, on
many occasions Randall Jarrell. And many, many more equally distinguished
writers.
- Robert Watson