Writing Program Reading Series
Jane Miller
Thursday, February 4 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Jane Miller is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including the National Poetry Series selection The Greater Leisures, Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poems, and the book-length poem A Palace of Pearls. Miller has received the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award and the Western States Book Award, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Brian Evenson
Thursday, February 11 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Brian
Evenson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel
Last Days and the story collection Fugue State. He lives and works in
Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University’s Literary
Arts Program. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA
fellowship. A limited edition novella, Baby Leg will be published by
New York Tyrant Press in late 2009.
Undergraduate Reading
Thursday, March 18 at 7:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Undergraduate students read from their fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Frank Bidart
Tuesday, March 23 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201 (craft lecture)
Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201 (reading)
Visiting Hurst Professor Frank Bidart is the author of eight books of poems. His latest book is Watching the Spring Festival. He has received the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and teaches at Wellesley College.
Nick Flynn
Wednesday, March 31 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” and “Blind Huber" for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress.
Tatyana Tolstaya
Monday, April 5 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201 (craft lecture)
Tuesday, April 6 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201 (reading)
Visiting Hurst Professor Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
Kerri Webster
Thursday, April 15 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Kerri Webster is completing a three-year appointment as Visiting Writer in Residence. Her chapbook, Psalm Project, is forthcoming from Albion Books. She is the author of We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, a book-length collection of poems published by the University of Georgia Press in 2005, and Rowing through Fog, a chapbook published by the Poetry Society of America in 2003.
Keving Prufer and Teddy Wayne
Thursday, April 22 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Kevin Prufer is the author of four books of poetry and the editor of three anthologies. His most recent book is National Anthem. He also serves as Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, an international magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews; Associate Editor of American Book Review; and Vice President/Secretary of the National Book Critics Circle.
Teddy Wayne's debut novel, Kapitoil, will be published by Harper Perennial in April, 2010. He is a graduate of Harvard and the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. The recipient of a 2010 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, his fiction, satire, and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Time, Vanity Fair, Esquire, McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
MFA Readings
Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Second-year MFA students read from their fiction and poetry.
For more information, contact David Schuman at (314) 935-7130 or via e-mail at dschuman@wustl.edu.