Visiting Writer Series
Spring
2013
April 24, 2013
LandEscapes
Literary and Arts Journal
April 12, 2013
Linda Kittell
Love Reports to Spring Training
Poetry Book Launch
Bundy Reading Room, Noon
Avery
Watch Linda's Reading
David Gates
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
5 p.m. Kimbrough 101
David Gates is the author of the novels Jernigan and Preston Falls and a collection of stories, The Wonders of the Invisible World. His fiction has been appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, the Paris Review, Esquire, GQ, Tin House and Ploughshares. His nonfiction has appeared in Newsweek, where he was a longtime writer and editor, as well as The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, GQ, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American and the Journal of Country Music. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and his books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the MFA writing program at the University of Montana and at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
"... and, along with teachers, students and staff at the Bennington, he's a member of the Dog House Band, on vocals,
guitar, and pedal steel."
Rusty Morrison
Wednesday February 13, 2013
5 p.m. Kimbrough 101
Reception to follow at the Bundy Reading Room Avery Hall
Rusty Morrison's After Urgency (Tupleo, 2012) won Tupelo's Dorset Prize, Book of the Given (2011) is available from Noemi Press, the true keeps calm biding its story (Ahsahta, 2008) won Academy of American Poet's James Laughlin Award, the Northern California Book Award, Ahsahta's Sawtooth Prize, DiCastagnola Award from Poetry Society of America. Whethering (The Center for Literary Publishing, 2004), won the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She has received the Bogin, Hemley, Winner, and DiCastagnola Awards from PSA. Her poems and/or essays appear in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, and elsewhere. Her poems have been anthologized in the Norton Postmodern American Poetry (2nd Edition), The Arcadia Project: Postmodern Pastoral, and Beauty is a Verb. She is co-publisher of Omnidawn.
Other Creative Writing Events TBA
Henry David Thoreau plaque on Library Way sidewalk in New York City
More Information
For more information about the 2012–2013 series, please contact Linda Russo, Visiting Writers Series Director