Sept 24, 2009

C.D. Wright
7:30 pm, Avaya Auditorium, campus
Michener Residency Award recipient and much-honored author of Rising, Falling, Hovering; One Big Self; Steal Away; and Deepstep Come Shining.

Dec 3, 2009

Jim Crace and Tony Giardina
7:30 pm, Avaya Auditorium, campus
Jim Crace is the author of the Booker Prize short-listed novels Quarantine and Being Dead, as well as Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, The Pesthouse, and Archipelago, forthcoming in 2011. His work has been recognized with the E.M Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Italy’s Premio Antico Fattore prize, and the International GAP Award, among other honors.

Anthony Giardina is a novelist, essayist and playwright whose published fiction includes four novels—White Guys, Recent History, Men with Debts, and A Boy’s Pretensions—and a story collection, The Country of Marriage. His stories and essays appear regularly in Harper’s, GQ, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine, and have been frequently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.

Feb 4, 2010

Richard Ford
7:30 pm, Avaya Auditorium, campus
Michener Residency Award recipient and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Independence Day, Rock Springs, The Sportswriter, among others.

Feb 25, 2010

Colm Toibin
7:30 pm Avaya Auditorium, campus
Acclaimed Irish author of Blackwater Lightship, The Master, Mothers and Sons, and most recently Brooklyn.

April 1, 2010

Brigit Pegeen Kelly
7:30 pm, Avaya Auditorium, campus
Visiting professor and author of the poetry collections To the Place of Trumpets, Song, and The Orchard.

May 6, 2010

MFA Graduation Reading
7:30 pm, Avaya Auditorium, campus
Spring 2010 graduates Malachi Black, Sarah Cornwell, Alex Ferrell, Kieran Fitzgerald, Jennifer Graham, Donald Harrison, J.D. Ho, Ladan Osman, Roger Reeves, and Kyle Schmidt.

All readings are free and open to students and the general public.