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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He will read a selection of poems, to be followed by an interview with Saskia Hamilton of the Barnard College English Department. Click here for more information on Robert Hass. This event is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Skip your classes and come hang out with John and I, and listen to our hero! | |||||||||||||||||
The Creative Writing Lecture Series at the School of the Arts presents...CD Wright: Concerning Why Poetry Offers A Better Deal Than The World's Biggest Retailer
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7 p.m.
Dodge Hall, Room 413
She has published a dozen collections, most recently, Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008). In 2007 Like Something Flying Backwards, New and Selected Poems was published in England. Her collaboration with photographer Deborah Luster, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana was awarded the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize; and a text edition was also released in 2007. Steal Away was on the international shortlist of the Griffin Trust Award. String Light won the 1992 Poetry Center book Award.
Wright is a recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the Robert Creeley Award, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor at Brown University and lives outside of Providence with her husband, poet Forrest Gander.
Nominated by Columbia M.F.A. faculty, our readers will charm, engage, and mystify all those in attendance with a sampling their best work.
The line-up this month:
Janet Mitchell has won the Hob Broun Prize for her fiction, and her stories have appeared in various literary journals and have been optioned to Hollywood. She is a recipient of the John Huston Award for Directing and a Paramount Pictures Fellowship for screenwriting. Her work as a writer-director includes the short film “How Does Anyone Get Old?” starring Mark Ruffalo and Mina Badie. She was born and raised in South Jersey, where her heart still resides.
Katherine Faw Morris is from North Carolina. Her work has appeared in BlackBook, Nylon, and the New York Observer. She is writing a novel, Rock Candy Mountain, about both candy and mountains.
Adam Boretz is not known for playing Jesse Katsopolis on “Full House” and he never portrayed Dr. Tony Gates on “ER.” Additionally, he did not play drums on the Beach Boys’ classic hit “Kokomo” and did not appear in the music video. He does live in Brooklyn, however. And his short fiction has appeared in Fawlt Magazine and Encyclopedia. He’s also writing a novel about mental illness and a memoir not about mental illness.
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What is Faculty Selects? The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of our featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success; this is your chance to glimpse who you’ll be reading in 2011!
Faculty Selects is curated by Bryan VanDyke and Emily Austin.
