Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series

2008-2009 Writing Series

Friday,
September 12, 2008 7:00 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Multimedia Collaboration

Claudia Rankine(poet)

John Lucas (photographer)

Author

Maxine Hong Kingston

Wednesday,
October 15, 2008 7:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading

Scott Turow (judge)

Anthony Varallo (winner)

Wednesday,
October 29, 2008 8:30 p.m.

David Lawrence Hall

Author

Russel Banks

Thursday,
November 13, 2008 8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Fred R. Brown Literary Award

Sabina Murray

Friday,
February 6, 2009

Noon-Talk By Rampersad
2 p.m.-Panel Discussion
(501 Cathedral of Learning)

7 p.m.-Poetry reading
(Giant Eagle Auditorium of Baker Hall, CMU)

Microconference on African American Literature

Arnold Rampersad

Carl PHillips

G.E. Patterson

Mendi Obadike

 

 

Thursday,
February 26, 2009
8:30 p.m.

501 Cathedral of Learning

Novelist

William Henry Lewis

Thursday,
April 2, 2009
8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

2008-09 William Block Sr. Writer

Paul Muldoon
Poet

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