Writing Program Reading Series
Lydia Millet
Thursday, September 17 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Lydia Millet is the author of George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, My Happy Life, a winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, and the forthcoming Love in Infant Monkeys.
Rikki Ducornet
Thursday, October 1 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Visiting Hurst Professor Rikki Ducornet is the author of seven novels, three collections of short fictions including The One Marvelous Thing, a collection of essays and five books of poetry. She has received a Lannan Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for fiction and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her paintings have been exhibited widely, most recently at the Museo de la Solidaridad in Santiago, Chile.
Thursday, October 8 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Visiting Hurst Professor Rikki Ducornet lectures on the craft of fiction.
Claudia Rankine
Tuesday, October 20 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Visiting Hurst Professor Claudia Rankine is the author of four collections of poetry, including PLOT, The End of the Alphabet, Nothing in Nature is Private, which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize, and, most recently Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. She was the 2005 recipient of the James Merrill Fellowship from the Academy of American Poetry for distinguished poetic achievement. Tonight, Professor Rankine lectures on the craft of poetry.
Mark Bibbins and Mónica de la Torre
Thursday, October 22 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Mark Bibbins is the author of the forthcoming collection The Dance of No Hard Feelings and Sky Lounge, for which he received a Lambda Literary Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, Boston Review and elsewhere.
Mónica de la Torre is the author of the poetry books Talk Shows, Acúfenos (a collection in Spanish), and, most recently Public Domain. She translated the books Poems by Gerardo Deniz and Mauve Sea-Orchids by Lila Zemborai. She is senior editor at BOMB Magazine.
Both poets will read from their work.
Claudia Rankine
Thursday, October 29 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Visiting Hurst Professor Claudia Rankine reads from her poetry.
Mary Jo Bang
Thursday, November 12 at 8:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Mary Jo Bang is the author of six books of poems, including Elegy, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the forthcoming The Bride of E. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Yale Review. She is a Professor of English at Washington University.
Undergraduate Reading
Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Undergraduate creative writing students read from their poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
For more information, please contact David Schuman at (314) 935-7130 or via e-mail at dschuman@wustl.edu.