All readings are held in English Auditorium 001, 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.
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September 24: Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate has written three personal essay collections -- Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Poseidon-Simon & Schuster, 1989), and Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996); two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979) and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987) and many other books. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.
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October 1: John Poch & Kurt Caswell
John Poch’s most recent book is Dolls. His previous book, Two Men Fighting with a Knife (Story Line Press 2008) won the Donald Justice Award. His first book, Poems, was published in January 2004 from Orchises Press and was a finalist for the PEN/Osterweil prize. He currently directs the creative writing program at Texas Tech.
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Kurt Caswell is a writer and an assistant professor of creative writing and literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. He won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize in 2008 for An Inside Passage (University of Nebraska Press). He is also the author of In the Sun’s House: My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation (Trinity University Press), and lead editor of To Everything on Earth, an anthology of nature writing forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press.
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October 22: Marie Howe
Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); The Good Thief (1998); and What the Living Do (1997), and is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, AGNI, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.
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October 29: Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern’s recent books of poetry are Save the Last Dance: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); Everything Is Burning (2005); American Sonnets (2002); Last Blue: Poems (2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); and Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His honors include the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hoskins Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2005, Stern was selected to receive the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. Stern was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006. He has taught at many universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Pittsburgh, and until his retirement in 1995 he taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey.
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November 19: Jacqueline Kolosov & William Wenthe
Jacqueline Kolosov’s poetry collections are Modigliani’s Muse (2009) and Vago (2007). Her YA novels are A Sweet Disorder (2009), The Red Queen’s Daughter (2007), and Grace from China (2004). She has co-edited two anthologies of contemporary women’s prose, and she has been a recipient of an NEA fellowship in fiction. Her poetry and prose have appeared in journals including The Southern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Western Humanities Review, and Orion. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Texas Tech University.
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William Wenthe has published two books of poems, Not Till We Are Lost (LSU Press, 2004) and Birds of Hoboken (Orchises Press, 1995, reprint 2003). He has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Texas Commission on the Arts, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Ontario Review, Open City, Tin House; and other journals and anthologies. His critical essays on the craft of poetry have appeared in The Yale Review and Kenyon Review.
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