Vanderbilt Register:'Hudson Review' editor to read from work Sept. 16

'Hudson Review' editor to read from work Sept. 16

Frederick Morgan, author of a dozen books of poetry and translation and nominee for the National Book Award, will read from his work Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. in 126 Wilson Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Morgan's talk at Vanderbilt is part of the Department of English's Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.

In 1947 Morgan founded "The Hudson Review," a literary quarterly with offices in New York City. The magazine has been published without interruption since the spring of 1948. He has served as editor of the publication since its inception and, since 1974, co-editor with art and architecture critic Paula Deitz. Early in the magazine's history it published the work of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens and discovered young writers such as Anne Sexton and Anthony Hecht. It continues to have a national and international reputation.

Morgan's book of poetry include "Poems for Paula," "Poems: New and Selected," "The Fountain and Other Fables," "Northbook," "Seven Poems by Mallarm=82," "Death Mother and Other Poems" and "Poems of Two Worlds." He attended Princeton University where he studied with writer Allen Tate. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Corps. In 1984 he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts and des Lettres by the French government.

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