凯·瑞恩

1967级 1968文学硕士  美国桂冠诗人 教育家  普利策奖获得者

她改变了我们对世界的认知

第16届的美国桂冠诗人圣华金河大峡谷和Mojave沙漠的小镇上长大，她的父亲在这挖油井。但是，她见识的东西远远超过乡村能提供的，感悟到活着的真谛。2010年，瑞恩获得普利策诗歌奖。她用讽刺和幽默的手法通过“重组押韵词”（全部或是部分押韵的词随机出现在整首诗中，而非十分规律地出现在诗句的末尾）揭示了人类经验的特质。她曾是羚羊谷学院的学生，后来转到UCLA。她坚持温和的教育，用她桂冠诗人的称号支持学院教育，最后在北加州的一个社区学院教了40年的英语辅导。这么多年来，她赠了许多书给UCLA,都被收藏在了哈默艺术博物馆中。

Kay Ryan

Class of 1967, MA 1968

She alters how we see the world around and within us.

The 16th U. S. Poet Laureate grew up in small towns in the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert, where her father dug oil wells. But her vision extended far beyond her rural home and deep into the heart of what it means to be alive. Ryan, the 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, uses irony and humor to unravel the idiosyncrasies of the human experience through “recombinant rhyme”–full and partially rhyming words that appear unexpectedly throughout her poems, rather than regularly at the ends of lines. The one-time Antelope Valley College student, who later transferred to UCLA, has stayed close to her modest upbringing, using her appointment as poet laureate to champion colleges and teaching remedial English at a community college in Northern California for four decades. She has given several readings at UCLA over the years, including at the Hammer Museum.‍