Visiting Writers - Spring Schedule

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Spring Visiting Writers:

Poetry:

Linda Gregerson is a poet, recent Guggenheim Fellow, and a member of faculty at the University of Michigan. Her books of poetry include Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), and Fire in the Conservatory (1982). She is also the author of literary criticism, including Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (2001) and The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (1995). Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry as well as in the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, the Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications. Among her many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Kingsley Tufts Award.

Reading: Thurs., Feb. 7, 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

***Workshop: Thurs., Feb. 7, 4:00 – 6:00pm, Fri., Feb. 8, 10:00am-12:00pm, Robinson A483, English Department Lounge***

Peter Gizzi is an award winning poet whose books include The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum and other poems 1987-92. He has also published several limited-edition chapbooks, folios, and artist books. His work has been translated into numerous languages. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1994) and fellowships in poetry from the Rex Foundation (1993), Howard Foundation (1998), The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (1999), and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2005). He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Reading: Thurs., April 10, 7:30pm, Sub II, Rooms 1 & 2

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Sub II, Rooms 1 & 2

Workshop: Wed. & Thurs., April 9 & 10, 4:00 – 6:00pm, Robinson

A447, English Department Conference Room

Fiction:

Jennifer Egan is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus; Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award; and the bestselling The Keep; and a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in the New York Times Magazine.

Reading: Tues., Feb. 19, 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

Workshop: Tues. & Wed., Feb. 19 & 20, 4:00 – 6:00pm, Robinson

A447, English Department Conference Room

Liam Callanan is the author of The Cloud Atlas (2004) and All Saints (2007). He teaches and coordinates the Ph.D. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has regularly contributed to local and national public radio, and has written for Esquire.com, Slate, the New York Times Book Review, the Times’ op-ed page, the Washington Post Magazine, Forbes FYI, Good Housekeeping, Parents and a number of other publications in locations ranging from Canada to Brazil. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including the Writers’ Chronicle, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain, Failbetter and Phoebe.

Reading: Mon., Mar. 17, 7:30pm, Sub II, Rooms 3 & 4

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Sub II, Rooms 3 & 4

Workshop: Mon. & Tues., Mar. 17 & 18, 4:00 – 6:00pm, Robinson

A447, English Department Conference Room

Nonfiction:

Blanche McCrary Boyd is the author of four novels, most recently Terminal Velocity (1997), which Publishers Weekly described as "a rollicking, kaleidoscopic trip through the drug-tinged lesbian-feminist counter-culture of the 1970s." Her other novels include Nerves (1973), Mourning the Death of Magic (1977), and The Revolution of Little Girls (1992), which won the Ferro Grumley Foundation's award for the best work of fiction written in 1991. It was also nominated for the Lambda Award, for Quality Paperback Books' New Voices Award, and for the first Southern Book Award for Fiction. Boyd also has published The Redneck Way of Knowledge (1982), a collection of essays, autobiography, and journalism. The reviewer for The Nation called it "impressive. . .superb. . .the best kind of social criticism." Boyd has been a staff writer at the Village Voice and a contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Reading: Wed., Feb. 6, 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Grand Tier III, Concert Hall

Workshop: Wed., & Thurs., Feb. 6 & 7, 4:00 – 6:00pm. Robinson

A447, English Department Conference Room

Mark Levine is the author of F5: Devestation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century. He is an award-winning magazine writer who has contributed to The New Yorker, Outside, and Men’s Journal among others and whose work has been included in The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Sports Writing, and The Best American Poetry. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine and he teaches poetry at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is also the author of three books of poetry.

Reading: Wed., Mar 26 or Wed., Apr. 2, Research I, Room 163

Reception: 6:30 – 7:30pm, Reception, Research I, Room 163, Lobby

Workshop: Wed., & Thurs., Mar. 26 & 27 or Apr. 2 & 3, 4:00 – 6:00pm,

Robinson A447, English Department Conference Room