Coming to Poetry-in-the-Round this spring:
(All times 7 p.m. Locations TBA)
Fiction writer David Gates — February 15
Poet Cathy Park Hong — March 17
Fiction writer Deborah Eisenberg — April TBA
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FALL 2010
Poetry-in-the-Round
Jeffrey Harrison
THURsday september 30
7:00 p.m. WALSH LIBRARY
Jeffrey Harrison is the author of four full-length books
of poetry—most recently Incomplete Knowledge
(Four Way Books, New York), which was runner-up
for the 2008 Poets’ Prize—as well as of The Names of
Things, a selected poems published in England by The
Waywiser Press in 2006. A recipient of Guggenheim
and NEA Fellowships, he has published poems in many
magazines and anthologies, including The New Yorker,
The New Republic, The Yale Review, and Poetry, and
has taught at George Washington University, Phillips
Academy, where he was the Roger Murray Writer-inResidence, College of the Holy Cross, the Stonecoast
MFA Program, Framingham State College, and, during
the summer, at the Frost Place in Franconia, NH.
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E.L. Doctorow
Philip Friedman
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27 7:00 p.m.
jubilee hall auditorium
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E.L. Doctorow’s work has been published in thirty-two languages. His novels
include The March, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel,
Ragtime, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, The Waterworks, and,
most recently, Homer and Langley. He has published two volumes of short
fiction, Lives of the Poets and Sweetland Stories, and three collections of
essays, Creationists, Reporting the Universe (The Harvard- Massey Lectures
in the History of American Civilization) and Jack London, Hemingway and
the Constitution. There have been five film adaptations of his work. His
novel Ragtime was adapted for the musical theater and returned last year
to Broadway in the highly acclaimed Kennedy Center revival. Among Mr.
Doctorow’s honors are the National Book Award, two Pen/Faulkner Awards,
three National Book Critics Circle Awards, the Edith Wharton Citation for
fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
In 2009 he was shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize for
Lifetime Achievement. Mr. Doctorow currently holds the Lewis and Loretta
Glucksman Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. A
volume of new and selected short fiction, All the Time in the World, will be
published in 2011.
The College of Arts and Sciences is proud to announce that E.L. Doctorow’s reading is sponsored
through the generosity of the late publisher, Robert Giroux of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of three collections of poetry:
Holding Company (2010, Norton); Hoops (2006, Norton); and
Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was
a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Forthcoming and previously published poems and essays have
appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Best American
Poetry, Boston Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, and other literary periodicals. He is a recipient
of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been
honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter
Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He lives in Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard
Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont. He
is a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars
and serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
Erin Patrice O’Brien
wedneSDAY November 10
7:00 p.m. WALSH library
all events are free