2006-2007 Writing Series

Friday,
September 22, 2006 Noon

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Friday,
September 22, 2006 7:00 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Poetry Readings
Nikky Finney - Rice on Wings Made of Gauze

Terrance Hayes - Muscular Music Wind in a Box

Wednesday,
October 4, 2006 8:30 p.m.

501 Cathedral of Learning

Gabeba Baderoon, poet
A Hundred Silences, The Dream in the Next Body

Winner of the 2005 DaimierChrysler Award for Poetry

Wednesday,
October 18, 2006 8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Dan Chaon, novelist
You Remind Me of Me, Fitting Ends, Among the Missing

Finalist for the 2001 National Book Award

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 8:00 p.m.**

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

** Please note the time change - from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading and Award Ceremony

. . . . and the Winner is: Todd James Pierce, Newsworld

Selected by Joan Didion

Friday,
November 10, 2006
7:00 p.m.

Alumni Hall Auditorium

H.G. Bissinger, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Friday Night Lights

There will be a discussion and screening

Saturday,
November 11, 2006
7:00 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Kathryn Harrison, Memoirist
Author of The Kiss, Poison, The Mother Knot

Thursday,
March 22, 2007
8:30 p.m.

Fricks Fine Arts Auditorium

Patrick McCabe, Novelist
The Butcher Boy, Breakfast on Pluto, Call Me the Breeze, Man Booker Prize nominee and Irish Times Literature Prize award winner.

Wednesday,
April 4, 2007
2:00 p.m.

501 Cathedral of Learning

Discussion: The Death of the "Poetic School" with: David St. John and Cole Swenson

Wednesday,
April 4, 2007
2:00 p.m.

Fricks Fine Arts Auditorium

Poetry Reading by:

David St. John, Study for the World's Body, The Face: A Novelia in Verse

Cole Swenson, Goest, Try, The Book of a Hundred Hands

Past Readings include:

Tomaz Salamun, Poet
and Richard Jackson, Poet

Tomaz Salamun has publilshed thirty collections of poetry in his home country of Slovenia and is recognized as one of the leading poets in Central Europe. He also has several works in English. His honors include the Preseren Fund Prize, the Jenko Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a visiting Fulbright to Columbia University, and a fellowship to the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Richard Jackson is the author of seven books of poems, including Heartwall, winner of the 2000 Juniper Prize. He is also the author of two books of criticism including Dismantling Time in Contemporary Poetry.

David Berman, Poet, Songwriter
Works include: Actual Air published in 1999. He is also an acclaimed songwriter as well as a poet. His band, The Silver Jews, has released four albums.

Anne Carson, Poet
Works include: The Beauty of the Husband, Autobiography of Red, Plainwater,
Men in the Off Hours,
Eros the Bittersweet

Natasha Tretheway, Poet
Works include: Domestic Work, Bellocq's Ophelia

Charles Baxter, Novelist
Works include: Saul and Patsy, The Feast of Love, Believers, Burning Down the House, Shadow Play

Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading

Judge: Stewart O'Nan; Author
Works include: A Prayer for the Dying, The Speed Queen, The Good Wife, Snow Angels

Winner: David Harris Ebenbach, Author
Works include: Between Camelots

Michael Ondaatje, Author
The 2005 William Block Sr. Writer Works include: The English Patient, Anil's Ghost, Coming through Slaughter, The Cinnamon Peeler, Running in the Family