Event | Lectures and Symposia Live! At the Library: U.S. Poet Laureate Inaugural Event Celebrating Arthur Sze Event has been rescheduled

Award-winning poet Arthur Sze will give his inaugural reading as the 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The historic reading marks the beginning of Sze's laureateship.

Arthur Sze is the author of twelve books of poetry, including "Into the Hush" (2025) and "The White Orchard: Selected Interviews, Essays, and Poems" (2025); "The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems" (2021), which received a 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Prize; "Sight Lines" (2019), for which he won the National Book Award; "Compass Rose" (2014), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; "The Ginkgo Light" (2009), selected for the PEN Southwest Book Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Book Award; "The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970–1998" (1998), selected for the Balcones Poetry Prize and the Asian American Literary Award; and "Archipelago" (1995), which won an American Book Award. He also published "The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry" (2024) and edited "Chinese Writers on Writing" (2010). His poetry has been translated into fifteen languages, including Chinese, Dutch, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Sze's many honors include the Library's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry as well as the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, the National Book Foundation Science + Literature award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize, a Lannan Literary Award, an Ada Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships and a Howard Foundation fellowship, as well as five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. A chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was the 2023–2024 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford University. A professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Sze was the first poet laureate of Santa Fe, where he lives with his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw.