October 16, 2008

Poet Natasha Tretheway is the author of Domestic Work, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. A professor of poetry at Emory University, she is recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller and the Guggenheim foundations, and the NEA, among others.

November 12, 2008

Denis Johnson returns to UT Campus to participate in the Ransom Center’s 2008 Flair Symposium, and gives a reading of his work for the MCW. His last novel, Tree of Smoke, received the 2007 National Book Award.

December 4, 2008

Visiting professor of fiction ZZ Packer reads from her work. She is the author of the story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, and recipient of a Stegner fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction

February 12, 2009

Australian author Peter Carey is the Spring 2009 Michener Residency Award recipient and will be in residence at MCW for several weeks in January and February. He is two-time winner of the Booker Prize, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, and author of some dozen other novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction.

March 5, 2009
Blanton Museum/Edgar A. Smith Building

Ian McEwan, author such acclaimed novels as Saturday, Atonement, and At Chesil Beach will read from his work. McEwan won the 1998 Man Booker Prize for Amsterdam and has been recognized with numerable other international literary prizes for his work. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.

Seating for this event is limited and on a first-come basis.

April 2, 2009

Visiting poet and lecturer Susan B. A. Somers-Willett reads from her new book of poetry, Quiver. A recipient of the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and a Mellon Fellowship, she is the author of Roam, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series, and a book of criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry.

April 16, 2009

W.S. Merwin returns to Austin to participate in the Poetry Festival at Round Top and will give a campus reading. In a career spanning five decades, he has been honored with the Yale Younger Poets prize (1952), the Pulitzer Prize (1970), the National Book Award (2005), and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbit National Poetry Prize (2006), as well as the Tanning Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.

May 7, 2009

Spring 2009 graduation reading of the MCW: Joseph Ahearn, Dale Cannedy, Frances Cowhig, Jesse Donaldson, Will Dunlap, Smith Henderson, Kevin Jones, Shao Wei, Sarah Smith, Ryan Soelberg, and Rebecca Wadlinger.

See our calendar at www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw for updates to the schedule. Unless noted all readings are at 7:30 pm in the UT Avaya Auditorium, ACES 2.302 on the southeast corner of Speedway and 24th Street on campus.