Writing Program Reading Series
Erin Belieu
Thursday, January 24, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Erin Belieu is the author of three poetry collections, all from Copper Canyon Press—Her collection Black Box was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She reads from her poetry.
Janet Kauffman
Thursday, February 7, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Janet Kauffman’s new book of stories and nonfiction—Trespassing; Dirt Stories & Field Notes will be published in April. She has previously published three books of short stories, three novels and three collections of poems, including most recently, Five on Fiction, a collection of prose poems. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She reads from her fiction.
Michael Palmer
Thursday, February 28, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Visiting Hurst Professor Michael Palmer’s most recent collections are The Promises of Glass, Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988), and Company of Moths, all from New Directions. Palmer has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, A Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Award, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. His selected essays and talks, Active Boundaries, is scheduled for publication in August of 2008. He reads from his poetry.
Michael Palmer
Tuesday, March 4, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Visiting Hurst Professor Michael Palmer lectures on the craft of poetry.
Edward. P. Jones
Thursday, March 27, at 8:00 p.m. in Whitaker Hall
Visiting Hurst Professor Edward P. Jones has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for The Known World; he also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of stories, Lost in the City, won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was short listed for the National Book Award. His second collection, All Aunt Hagar’s Children, was a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award. He reads from his fiction. Please note that this event will take place in Whitaker Hall.
Brian Henry & Tomaz Salamun
Thursday, April 3, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Tomaž Šalamun has published more than 30 books of poetry in Slovenia, and his poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages around the world. Besides having his work appear in numerous journals internationally, he has published nine collections of poetry in English, most recently The Book for My Brother. Woods and Chalices, translated with Brian Henry, is forthcoming from Harcourt in 2008. Brian Henry has published five books of poetry, most recently The Stripping Point. They read from their poetry.
Ciaran Carson
Monday, April 14, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast in 1948, where he is Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University. He is the author of nine collections of poems, including Belfast Confetti, First Language, and Breaking News, which won the 2003 Forward Prize. His translation of Dante’s Inferno won the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize. A translation of the Old Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge was published by Penguin Classics in 2007. Due in 2008 are For All We Know, a book of poems and The Pen Friend, a novel. He reads from his poetry.
MFA Student Readings
Monday, April 21 & Wednesday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Second-Year MFA Students in fiction and poetry read from their work. Please note that these readings begin at 7:00 pm.
For more information, contact David Schuman at 935-7130 or
try dschuman@wustl.edu.