Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series

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.

Wednesday,
Feb. 8, 2006
8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Room 125

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.

Monday,
March 27, 2006
8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Room 125

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

Wednesday,
April 5, 2006
8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Room 125

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

Wednesday,
Oct. 19, 2005
8:30 p.m.

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Room 125

Wednesday,
Nov. 2, 2005
7:30 p.m.**

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
Room 125

**Please note
time change

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

Thursday,
Nov. 10, 2005
8:30 p.m.

David Lawrence Auditorium

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