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2007-2008
Reading Series
All events are free and open to the public
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Poetry Reading
Jay Hopler
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Tuesday,
October 16, 2007
5:10 p.m.
Wendell Will Room (inside the
Stockwell-Mudd Library)
Jay Hopler, this year’s
GLCA New Writer for Poetry award-winner, is the author of
Green Squall, which was chosen by poet Louise Glück for the
2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. His poems have
appeared in various literary journals, including Boulevard,
Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker,
and Ploughshares. He holds degrees from the John Hopkins
Writing Seminars and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Hopler was
born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and presently lives and teaches
at the University of South Florida.
A reception and
book-signing will immediately follow the reading.
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Co-sponsored by the English
Department and Stockwell-Mudd Library.
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Wednesday,
February 20, 2008
5:10 p.m.
I-House Auditorium
Tony D'Souza, this year’s GLCA New Writer for Fiction award winner, is
the author of Whiteman (Harcourt), which received the Sue Kaufman
Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has contributed
to The New Yorker, Playboy, Salon, Esquire, Outside, The O.Henry
Awards, Best American Fantasy, McSweeney's, Tin House, and
elsewhere; he has also appeared on Dateline, The Today Show, the BBC,
NPR, and other venues. The Konkans, his second novel, is now
available.
D’Souza was born and raised in Chicago. He holds degrees in writing from
Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame; he also served
three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, where he was a rural
AIDS
educator.
A reception and
book-signing will immediately follow the reading.
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Fiction Reading
Tony D'Souza |
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Co-sponsored by the English
Department and Stockwell-Mudd Library. |
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
7:00 p.m.
I-House Auditorium
Novelist Madison Smartt Bell writes: “Few writers of the twenty-first
century can rival the verve, the energy, and the sheer delight in
language of Julianna Baggott.” She is the author of three poetry
collections, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, Lizzie Borden in Love
and This Country of Mothers, and four novels—Girl Talk, The
Miss America Family, The Madam, and Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in
Confessions (co-written with Steve Almond). She also writes
children’s novels under the pen name N.E. Bode, including The
Anybodies and The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium. Her work has
appeared in various journals and anthologies such as Poetry, The
Southern Review, Triquarterly, and Best American Poetry.
Baggott received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. She teaches at Florida State University.
A reception and book-signing will immediately follow the reading.
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2008 Wilson Poet
Julianna Baggott |
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Sponsored by the English Department and Albion alumni Mr.
and Mrs. C. Thomas Wilson. |
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