OREM — Paul Swenson, a Utah Valley State College communication professor, will discuss the poetry of his sister, the late renowned author May Swenson, on Wednesday.
The discussion will be from 7-8:30 p.m. in the UVSC Faculty Seminar Room, library classroom 243.
May Swenson died in 1989 in Bethany Beach, Del., of a heart attack. She was 76. She was buried in her native Logan.
May Swenson graduated from Utah State University in 1934 and worked two years as a reporter for the Deseret News. She left Utah to work as an author's assistant in New York, and became an editor at the avant-garde "New Directions."
As a poet, she was recognized for irony and control of form. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 1985 she was named winner of the MacArthur Fellowship and was awarded $350,000.