Visiting Writers
Past Events:
Date: 10/15/2009
Location: Wilson Hall
Willis Barnstone taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and during the Cultural Revolution went to China, where he was later a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1984-1985); Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor; and Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English Language and Literature at Whittier College and holds a Masters in English and Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley.
Date: 12/9/2009
Location: Wilson Hall
Twin brothers, both authors have been profiled in Poets & Writers and The New Yorker.
Date: 3/25/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of six novels including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and the winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Date: 4/27/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her new book of poems, Breach, about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in March 2010. Her first book of poetry, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award and was published by LSU Press in 1996.
Date: 9/21/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc came to the United States in 1996 to complete graduate work in American literature. She received an M.A. from Salisbury University, an M.F.A. in poetry from New England College, and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Maryland.
Date: 10/14/2010
Location: Wilson Hall
David St. John has been honored, over the course of his career, with many of the most significant prizes for poets, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, both the Rome Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the O. B. Hardison Prize (a career award for teaching and poetic achievement) from The Folger Shakespeare Library, and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Date: 3/22/2011
Location: Pollak Theatre;Wilson Hall
On the first night, Codrescu will discuss the politics and culture(s) of East and West, the collapse of communism (which he covered for the U.S. media) and its aftermath, and the historical and literary changes that are reshaping Eastern Europe and informing his own relations to spaces of origin or adoption. On the second night, he will be reading from his new book, The Poetry Lesson (Princeton University Press, 2010).
Date: 4/26/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Jennifer Grotz's second book of poems, The Needle, is forthcoming in Spring 2011. Her first book of poems, Cusp, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa for the Bakeless Prize and also recieved the Natalie Ornish Best First Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her poems, essays and translations from both the French and Polish appear widely in journals such as New England Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and American Poetry Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry and Legitimate Dangers. She teaches poetry and translation at the University of Rochester and also serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Date: 9/15/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of three collections of poetry, This Strange Land(Alice James Books, April 2011), Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
Date: 10/6/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Nick Flynn is the author of two memoirs, The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (Norton, 2010) and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and has been translated into 13 languages.
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Date: 11/8/2011
Location: Wilson Hall
Michael Waters’ ten books of poetry include Gospel Night (2011); Darling Vulgarity (2006—finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize); Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001—finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize)—these titles from BOA Editions—Bountiful (1992); The Burden Lifters (1989); and Anniversary of the Air (1985)—these titles from Carnegie Mellon UP. In 2011, Shoestring Press (UK) published Selected Poems.
Date: 2/23/2012
Location: Magill Commons
Liliana Ursu Thursday, February 23 at 4 30 Club Rooms 107 108, Magill Commons Liliana Ursu, internationally acclaimed Romanian poet, was born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1949. Ursu has published eight books of poetry in Romanian. Her first book in English, The Sky
Date: 3/22/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Natasha Trethewey is author of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast; Native Guard, for which she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize; Bellocq’s Ophelia, which was named a Notable Book for 2003 by the American Library Association; and Domestic Work.
Date: 3/30/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Robert Pinsky, Three-time U.S. poet laureate and author of several acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation will bring his verse to life on the Pollak Theatre stage in a reading with musical accompaniment.
Date: 4/10/2012 - 4/10/2012
Location: Pollak Theatre
Author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes or poetry, Naomi Shihab Nye will read selections from her work.
Date: 9/19/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Josh Emmons has written the novels “Prescription for a Superior Existence” and “The Loss of Leon Meed" and has also been given an honorable mention in "The Best American Non-required Reading."
Free & Open to Public
Date: 10/16/2012
Location: Wilson Hall
Meena Alexander considered one of the foremost Indian poets of her generation. Editor of Indian Love Poems and author of several other publications, her memoir Fault Lines was picked as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 11/17/2012
Location: Bey Hall
The day will consist of readings by nationally known poets, some of whom will conduct poetry workshops for participants. The keynote readers will be Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn and Cave Canem Fellow Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Stephen Dunn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Different Hours.
Date: 3/12/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
Mary Gaitskill is famous for her novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the 2005 National Book Award.
Date: 4/4/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
C.K. Williams has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/16/2013
Location: Wilson Hall
Jen Davis is a New York based photographer. For the past 11 years she has been working on a series of Self-Portrait’s dealing with issues regarding beauty, identity, and body image. An accomplished photographer, she received her MFA from Yale University and has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
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