Anne Carson & Alice Oswald

Anne Carson (left) is a poet and classics scholar. Her books include Glass, Ironyand God; Plainwater; Autobiography of Red; The Beauty of the Husband, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2001; and NOX, an epitaph for her brother. Her classical translations include If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho and the recent Antigonick (with drawings by Bianca Stone). Alice Oswald (below) is the author of The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile; Dart, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prizefor Poetry in 2002; Woods Etc.; Weeds and Flowers; and A Sleepwalk on the Severn. Oswald trained as a classicist, and her most recent book is Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, which focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief images of the minor war-dead, each of whom lives and dies unforgettably-and unforgotten--in Homer's glance. Co-sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women.