Visiting Writer: Naomi Shihab Nye
Author and/or editor of more than 25 volumes or poetry, Naomi Shihab Nye will read selections from her work.
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Arts at Monmouth
Jim Flanagan: Storyteller Growing up Irish-American
Jim Flanagan is seanchai, a true Irish storyteller, who has that lyrical way with words the Irish bring to the world. Join him and visit a Jersey City boyhood where street games, schools, nuns, priests, and politicians are the stuff of legends. He will take you on a journey from laughter to tears and back again with the magic of his words.
Fresh Beat Band – Afternoon Performance
THE FRESH BEAT BAND – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH. DOORS 2:00 PM SHOWTIME 3:00 PM.
Fresh Beat Band – Evening Performance
THE FRESH BEAT BAND – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH.DOORS 5:30 PM SHOWTIME 6:30 PM.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Lauren K. Woods TheatrePlease note that the March 6th performance has been cancelled due to the weather. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters, Twelfth Night combines high comedy with some of the subtlest poetry and most beautiful songs Shakespeare ever wrote.
Visiting Arts Lecture: Jen Davis
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.
Katie Ford
Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and the forthcoming Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons, and their young daughter.
National Theatre of London: OTHELLO
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty’s fourth full-length book, The Switching/Yard, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in February, 2013. A limited edition chapbook, Ravage, was published by Lefty Blondie Press in 2012. Other books include Red Sugar, finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize; Boneshaker, finalist, Milton Kessler Award; Mad River, Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize—all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her chapbook, Ravenous, won the 1995 State Street Prize.
Julian Sands (In Person) in A Celebration of Harold Pinter
Pollak TheatreSpecial Live Appearance!! With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, Julian Sands (24, A Room with a View, The Killing Fields, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas) combines Harold Pinter’s poems and political prose to create a very fresh and intimate insight into the Nobel laureate’s literary legacy.
$25; $37