Department of English

Louise Glück, Winner of The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Has Ties to UNCG *Updated*

Posted on October 29, 2020

Louise Glück: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, former US Poet Laureate, author, and former UNCG visiting lecturer.

In the spring of 1973, Louis Glück taught “Approaches to Poetry” and a graduate workshop in the MFA program.

(Source: University Archives)

According to the catalog issue from 1972-1973, Louise Glück was brought in as a visiting lecturer for the spring semester of 1973, and is listed to teach a section of English 527.

(Source: University Archives)

And according to News & Record, she returned to UNCG in 1997 for a reading at the Alumni House sponsored by the MFA Creative Writing Program.

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