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SUMMARY:Visiting Writers Series with Joseph Earl Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink\, a memoir (Grand Central Publishing\, 2023)\, longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, and shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize; the novel God Bless You\, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central Publishing\, 2024)\, longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Literary Excellence\, finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award\, winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Penguin Random House\, 2027). His prose and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review\, The Paris Review\, The Verge\, Harper’s\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Vanity Fair\, The Yale Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and Dilettante Army. His honors include the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize\, The Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing and Publishing\, and fellowships from Kimbilio\, VONA\, Tin House and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose\, he earned his  PhD in English from The University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College as well as low residency MFA programs at Holy Family and Randolph Colleges\, and teaches courses in Black Studies\, Poetics\, Video Games\, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.\n \n \nOf his debut novel\, the New York Times Books Review stated: “Like the work of Jackson Pollock\, the novel reveals itself the longer one spends time with it. Keep looking\, the chaos will start to show its pattern\, its rhythm\, its dimension and its awe-inspiring color\,” while NPR said: “It’s hard to list all the themes Thomas tackles with aplomb in this book – just know it’s smart\, fast moving and funny as hell.”\n \n \nCopies of Dr. Thomas’s books will be for sale at the event. In addition\, he’ll lead a craft discussion in my fiction seminar from 3-4pm in the Student Center\, Room 202C. If you’d like to attend\, let me know ASAP as space is limited. \n \nIf you plan to attend the reading\, please RSVP to Michele McBride\, mmcbride@monmouth.edu.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/visiting-writers-series-with-joseph-earl-thomas/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Arts at Monmouth,Community Member,Current Student,English,Faculty,Free,Lectures,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,World Languages and Culture
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SUMMARY:Andrew Martin -Visiting Writer
DESCRIPTION:The Visiting Writers Series will welcome Andrew Martin\, who will be reading from his latest novel\, which will be released in 2026. \nHe is the author of the novel Early Work\, a New York Times Notable book\, the story collection Cool for America\, and the forthcoming novel Down Time. His work appears regularly in The Paris Review\, The New York Review of Books\, and Harper’s\, and his stories and essays have also been published recently in The Atlantic\, The Yale Review\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times Book Review\, and elsewhere. A graduate of the University of Montana’s MFA program\, he teaches in the Writer’s Foundry MFA at St. Joseph’s University and in the Mountainview MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University \nPlease RSVP to Michele McBride mmcbride@monmouth.edu to be put on the attendee list. \n 
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/visiting-writer-andrew-martin/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Featured,Free
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SUMMARY:John Vercher
DESCRIPTION:John’s debut novel\, Three-Fifths\, was named one of the best books of 2019 by the Chicago Tribune. In the U.K.\, Three-Fifths was named a Book of the Year by The Sunday Times\, The Financial Times\, and The Guardian. His second novel\, After the Lights Go Out\, was published by Soho Press. It’s been called “simply brilliant” by Publishers Weekly in a starred review\, “shrewd and explosive” by The New York Times\, and was named an Editors’ Choice in Adult Fiction for 2022 by Booklist. His third novel\, Devil Is Fine has received starred reviews from Booklist and BookPage\, was named a Best New Book of the Summer by TIME Magazine and The Root\, an Indie Next pick for July\, and one of the Top Ten Books to Add to Your Reading List in June by the Los Angeles Times. Additionally\, Devil is Fine was a June book pick by The Center for Fiction\, one of the 12 Must-Read Books of June by The Chicago Review of Books\, a Book of the Day for July by NPR\, and was featured on NPR’s It’s Been A Minute.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/john-vercher/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Alumni Affairs,Alumni Events,Arts at Monmouth,English,Free
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SUMMARY:Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters
DESCRIPTION:Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2021)\,  Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books\, 2010)\, translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press\, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, 2015)\, editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press\, 2016)\, and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf\, 2020). She has published scholarship in the field of Romani Studies\, on issues of representation\, appropriation\, exophony and code-switching\, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn\, Agha Shahid Ali\, and Colum McCann. She is the Translation Editor for Plume. \nMoscaliuc has received two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner\, residency fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, MacDowell\, and Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland)\, Dairy Hollow\, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. \nShe is graduate program director and associate professor of English at Monmouth University (New Jersey) and former poetry & translation faculty in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Drew University (New Jersey). \nMichael Waters’ recent books include Sinnerman (Etruscan Press\, 2023)\, Caw (BOA Editions\, 2020)\, & The Dean of Discipline (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2018). Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions\, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His co-edited anthologies include Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf\, 2020) & Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies (Knopf\, 2019). His poems have appeared in numerous journals\, includingPoetry\, American Poetry Review\, Paris Review\, Yale Review\, & Kenyon Review. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow\, recipient of five Pushcart Prizes & fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Fulbright Foundation\, & NJ State Council on the Arts\, Waters lives without a cell phone in Ocean\, NJ.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/mihaela-moscaliuc-and-michael-waters/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Lectures/Workshops/Symposiums
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SUMMARY:Kaitlyn Greenidge
DESCRIPTION:Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel is We Love You\, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin Books)\, one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016. Her writing has appeared in the Vogue\, Glamour\, the Wall Street Journal\, Elle\, Buzzfeed\, Transition Magazine\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, The Believer\, American Short Fiction and other places. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar as well as a contributing writer for The New York Times. Her second novel\, Libertie\, is published by Algonquin Books and out now.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/kaitlyn-greenidge/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Nugent
DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Nugent is the author of Fraternity: Stories (FSG\, 2020). He was awarded The Paris Review’s 2019 Terry Southern Prize for his fiction\, which has been published in The Best American Short Stories and other anthologies. He’s written for Harper’s\, The New York Times Book Review\, The New York Times Magazine\, and other publications. He grew up in Amherst\, Massachusetts\, and is currently Director of the Mountainview Low-Residency MFA at Southern New Hampshire University.
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/benjamin-nugent/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Arts at Monmouth,English,Free,Lectures,Lectures/Workshops/Symposiums
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Salgado Maranhão and Alexis Levitin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a bilingual reading (Portuguese and English) and Q&A with Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão and translator Alexis Levitin. \n\n \nSalgado Maranhão\nBorn in the impoverished interior of Maranhão\, in northeast Brazil\, Salgado Maranhão became one of the most prominent Afro-Brazilian poets. Twice winner of Prêmio Jabuti\, he has been awarded major prizes from the Academy of Brazilian Letters and the Writers’ Union. Five collections of his work have appeared in English: Blood of the Sun (2012)\, Tiger Fur (2015)\, Palavora (2019)\, Mapping the Tribe (2020)\, and Consecration of the Wolves (2021)\, all in Alexis Levitin’s translation. In addition to seventeen books of poetry\, he has written song lyrics and made recordings with some of Brazil’s leading jazz and pop musicians. \nMaranhão’s poetry explores\, via metaphor\, the various kinds of devastation we bring upon our lands and thus upon ourselves. \n\n\n \nAlexis Levitin\nAlexis Levitin translates works from Portugal\, Brazil\, and Ecuador. His forty-eight books of translation include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm\, Eugenio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words\, Astrid Cabral’s Cage and Gazing Through Water\, and five collections by Salgado Maranhão\, including the most recent\, Consecration of the Wolves. He has served as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universities of Oporto and Coimbra (Portugal)\, The Catholic University in Guayaquil (Ecuador)\, and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and has held translation residencies at the Banff Center (Canada)\, The European Translators Collegium (Germany)\, and the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio (Italy). \n\n\nThis presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of English\, Monmouth Intercultural Center\, Institute for Global Understanding\, and Department of World Languages and Cultures
URL:https://www.monmouth.edu/events/event/bilingual-poetry-reading-and-qa-with-salgado-maranhao-and-alexis-levitin/
LOCATION:Great Hall 104 (Julian Abele Room)
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Community Member,Current Student,English,Faculty,Institute for Global Understanding,Intercultural Center Events,School of Humanities and Social Sciences,World Languages and Culture
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