The 59th Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with Brenda Hillman 

Wednesday March 11, 2026 

reception 6 p.m./ reading 7 p.m. 

Konover Auditorium, UConn, Storrs 

Free and open to the public 

Award-winning poet Brenda Hillman is the author of numerous collections of poetry: White Dress, Fortress, Death Tractates, Bright Existence, Loose Sugar, Cascadia, Pieces of Air in the Epic, Practical Water, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry; Extra Hidden Life, Among the Days; and her most recent In a Few Minutes Before Later. In 2016 she was named Academy of American Poets Chancellor. Among other awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.  

Hillman’s visit is organized by the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program Committee in UConn’s Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Funding is provided by the Aetna Chair of Writing, the English Department Speaker’s Fund, the UConn Humanities Institute, and donations by English faculty and private individuals who gave generously through the 2024 UConn Gives Campaign.