Scary Stories at the Spot
Join members of the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta for Scary Stories at the Spot in the Williams Center on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7:00. Professors Steinberg, Jarvis, and Lord will regale us with reading appropriately scary stories. Stop in for a story and a cookie. You won’t want to miss it.
Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series
We are excited to have an ongoing series of nationally-acclaimed visiting writers, who work directly with our students in small workshop as well as lecture settings. All are welcome. Here is the upcoming calendar:
Fall 2009
OCT.1: Michael Czyzniejewski’s (short-stories): Elephants in Our Bedroom; (ISBN-10: 097931237X) Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review literary magazine and teaches at Bowling Green State University. His stories appear in Southern Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, and StoryQuarterly. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. Both events will be held in McEwen 202 and are free and open to the public.
NOV.5: Patrick Rosal/Ross Gay (poetry):
Ross Gay is the author of Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006) ISBN-10: 1933880007 . His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other places. He teaches in the MFA program at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. Both events will be held in McEwen 202 and are free and open to the public.
Patrick Rosal is the author of My American Kundiman (ISBN-10: 0892553308), winner of the Book Award in poetry from the Association of Asian American Studies, and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Asian American Writers' Workshop Members' Choice Award. His poems and essays are forthcoming or have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity, Columbia, and the Beacon Best. He has previously taught at UTexas-Austin and Bloomfield College. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. Both events will be held in McEwen 202 and are free and open to the public.
Spring 2010
MAR. 11: Laura van den Berg (short-stories): What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us; Formerly an assistant editor at Ploughshares, Laura is currently a fiction editor at West Branch She has taught writing at Emerson College, Grub Street, and in PEN/New England's Freedom to Write Program. Her fiction has or will soon appear in One Story, The Boston Review, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, and Best New American Voices 2010, among other publications. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. The location of this event is TBA. The program is free and open to the public.
APR. 15, 2010: Deborah Ager/ Alison Stine (poetry double-feature):
Alison Stine is the author of Ohio Violence, winner of the 2008 Vassar Miller Prize, was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2009. She is also the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize (Kent State University Press 2001). Her work has been published in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and many others. Her awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. The location of this event is TBA. The program is free and open to the public.
Deb Ager is the author of Midnight Voices (ISBN-10: 1934999423). Her poems appear in Best New Poets 2006, Best of the Tigertail Anthologies, The Bloomsbury Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She's received fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was selected as Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She codirects the Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry Reading Series in Washington , DC and is founding editor of 32 Poems Magazine. The craft talk begins at 4 p.m., followed by a reading and book-signing at 7 p.m. The location of this event is TBA. The program is free and open to the public.
Ongoing
Writer's Ring
English Department student-led creative writing club. First Wednesday of every month, 6pm, 127 Fenton.
Other Activities
These campus-wide events are sponsored outside of the English Department, and organized by English department faculty in collaboration with other departments and student groups.
The Brown Bag Lectures
Lunchtime Talks on Research in the Arts and Humanities, sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities. First Wednesday of Every month between 12 and 12:50 pm, Williams Center, S-104.