This just in. The 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry goes to Kay Ryan, recent US Poet Laureate, who will be reading her work at UMass Lowell on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 pm, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder St, UMass Lowell South Campus. ‎Parking is available in the UML lot on Wilder St.

Free and open to all, the reading is sponsored by the UMass Lowell Dept of English and UML Center for Arts and Ideas.

Kay Ryan won for her collection “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems,” which the LA Times called “witty, rebellious, and yet tender, a treasure trove of an iconoclastic and joyful mind.”

Kay Ryan,winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry