Join award-winning Welsh poet and academic Dr. Nerys Williams as she outlines the life and poetry of Dylan Thomas and discusses his experiences in America and the San Francisco Bay Area. Samples of Thomas reading his own poetry will be the highlight of the evening.
Cosponsored with the Irish Literary and Historical Society.
Dr. Nerys Williams is an award-winning Welsh poet and academic, based in Ireland. Her first volume of poetry Sound Archive (Seren Press, 2011) won the Strong Award for best first volume at the 2012 Poetry Now Festival in Ireland. It was also nominated for the prestigious Forward first volume prize. She studied at the University of Stirling and U.C. Berkeley and received her PhD from the University of Sussex. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Award to U.C. Berkeley in 2007. She lectures on American poetry in the School of English, Drama and Film in University College, Dublin. She is bilingual (Welsh / English) and has broadcast frequently on BBC Radio Wales and RTE (Irish National Radio). She is the author of two academic works, Reading Error: The Lyric and Contemporary American Poetry (Peter Lang, 2007) and Contemporary Poetry (Edinburgh Critical Guides, Edinburgh University Press, 2011).