Writing Program Reading Series
Carolyn Forché
Thursday, January 22, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201Visiting Hurst Professor Carolyn Forché is the author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992, she received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum.
Kate Bernheimer
Thursday, February 26, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Kate Bernheimer is the author of two novels, The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry Gold, and editor of two essay collections, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales, and Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales. She is also the author of a children's book called The Girl in The Castle inside The Museum. She is editor and founder of the literary journal Fairy Tale Review.
Undergraduate Reading
Tuesday March 3, at 7:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Undergraduates read from their fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Brenda Shaughnessy
Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of Human Dark with Sugar and Interior with Sudden Joy. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Bomb, Boston Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.
Lydia Davis
Thursday, March 17, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Visiting Hurst Professor Lydia Davis will give a craft talk entitled "A Beloved Duck Gets Cooked: Writing Outside the Mainstream." Lydia Davis is the author of four collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance, Break It Down, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, and a novel, The End of the Story. Her work has been translated into six languages. Among her other awards and honors, Davis was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and translation, and in 2003 received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
Lydia Davis
Thursday, March 19, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Visiting Hurst Professor Lydia Davis reads from her fiction.
David Lehman
Thursday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
David Lehman is the author of several collections of poems, including When a Woman Loves a Man, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (with James Cummins), The Evening Sun, The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry, Valentine Place, Operation Memory, and An Alternative to Speech. Lehman's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.
Nick Reding
Thursday, April 16, at 8:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Literary nonfiction writer Nick Reding is the author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World: The Story of the Gauchos of Patagonia and of the forthcoming Methland, about the methamphetamine epidemic in small towns. His articles have been published in Harper's, Outside, and Food and Wine magazines.
MFA Readings
Tuesday, April 21 &Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Duncker 201
Graduating students from the MFA Program read from their fiction and poetry.
For more information, contact David Schuman at 935-7130 or
try dschuman@wustl.edu.