Lecture by Lydia Davis
11:00 am, Baker Center Theater
Lecture by Tim Seibles
12:00 pm, Baker Center Theater
Reading by Robin Hemley
7:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by George Saunders
8:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Lydia Davis
8:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Lecture by Mary Ruefle
11:00 am, Baker Center Theater
Lecture by George Saunders
12:00 pm, Baker Center Theater
Reading by Tim Seibles
7:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Mary Ruefle
8:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Lecture by Robin Hemley
7:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Spring Literary Festival
Wednesday, May 9th through Friday, May 11th, 2012
The 2012 Spring Literary Festival will showcase the talents of Denise Duhamel, Terrance Hayes, Amy Hempel, Richard Rodriguez, and Susan Orlean.
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Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The three-day festival is held in May on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. We invite you to join us.
The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program and at Little Professor Book Center.
For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at davidwanczyk@gmail.com.
Past Spring Literary Festival attendees include Paul Auster, John Ashbery, Russell Banks, Frank Bidart, Billy Collins, Lydia Davis, William Gass, Donald Hall, Barry Hannah, Elizabeth Hardwick, Amy Hempel, Tony Hoagland, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Barry Lopez, Heather McHugh, W.S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, N. Scott Momaday, Lorrie Moore, Mary Oliver, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Francine Prose, Marilynne Robinson, George Saunders, Leslie Marmon Silko, Charles Simic, James Tate, John Edgar Wideman, Geoffrey Wolff.
See complete Spring Literary Festival History here.
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Last Year's Schedule
Wednesday, May 4th (All events in Baker Center Theater)
Lecture by Rita Dove, 7:30
Reading by Rosellen Brown, 8:30
Thursday, May 5th
Lecture by Rosellen Brown, 11:00
Lecture by Tobias Wolff, 12:00
Reading by Debra Marquart, 7:30
Reading by Padgett Powell, 8:30
Friday, May 6th
Lecture by Padgett Powell, 11:00
Lecture by Debra Marquart, 12:00
Reading by Rita Dove, 7:30
Reading by Tobias Wolff, 8:30
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Photos from Spring Literary Festival 2011, courtesy of Fred Viebahn
Clockwise from top left: Rita Dove and Tobias Wolff before their reading on Friday night. // Rita Dove, Zakes Mda, Debra Marquart, Amrit Singh, and Dinty W. Moore, at Zoe in Athens. // Mark Halliday, Rita Dove, Rosellen Brown, Dinty W. Moore, and Eric LeMay enjoy the Lit Fest after-party. // Padgett Powell (with his daughter) chats with Rita Dove outside Restaurant Salaam. //
Readings
Baker Theater
11am Lecture by Lee K. Abbott
12pm Lecture by Kathryn Harrison
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Reading by Tony Hoagland
8:30pm Reading by Edwidge Danticat
Readings
Baker Theater
11am Lecture by Tony Hoagland
12pm Lecture by Thomas Glave
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Reading by Kathryn Harrison
8:30pm Reading by Lee K. Abbott
Readings
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Lecture by Edwidge Danticat
8:30pm Lecture by Thomas Glave
Spring Literary Festival History
Spring Literary Festival 1986
Carolyn Chute
Andre Dubus
Jorie Graham
Michael S. Harper
Robert Hass
Stanley Plumly
Tobias Wolff
Spring Literary Festival 1987
Stanley Elkin
Mary Gordon
Stanley Kunitz
Gerald Stern
Joy Williams
Charles Wright
Spring Literary Festival 1988
Rosellen Brown
Rita Dove
William Gass
Jesse Lee Kercheval
William Matthews
W.S. Merwin
Spring Literary Festival 1989
A.R. Ammons
Carlos Fuentes
Louise Gluck
Peter Matthiessen
Mary Robison
Charles Simic
Spring Literary Festival 1990
Fred Chappell
Donald Hall
Josephine Jacobsen
Laura Kalpakian
Jane Miller
Wright Morris
Spring Literary Festival 1991
Lucille Clifton
Robert Creeley
Elizabeth Hardwick
Czeslaw Milosz
N. Scott Momaday
Seventh Annual Spring Literary Festival 1992
Denise Levertov
Oliver Sacks
Leslie Marmon Silko
Josef Skvorecky
Adam Zagajewski
Spring Literary Festival 1993
Cynthia Ozick
William Stafford
Jean Valentine
John Edgar Wideman
Geoffrey Wolff
Spring Literary Festival 1994
John Ashbery
Gretel Ehrlich
Susan Howe
Grace Paley
Padgett Powell
Spring Literary Festival 1995
Charles Baxter
Nancy Mairs
Lorrie Moore
Mary Oliver
James Tate
Spring Literary Festival 1996
Paul Auster
Eavan Boland
Phillip Levine
Bharati Mukherjee
Richard Selzer
Spring Literary Festival 1997
Russell Banks
Jorie Graham
Galway Kinnell
Barry Lopez
Mary Lee Settle
Spring Literary Festival 1998
Rosellen Brown
Ron Hansen
Kenneth Koch
Susan Ludvigson
Reg Saner
Spring Literary Festival 1999
Anne Beattie
Ann Carson
Richard Ford
Vivian Gornick
Mark Strand
Spring Literary Festival 2000
Albert Goldbarth
Heather McHugh
Antonya Nelson
Andrew Sarris
Spring Literary Festival 2001
Frank Bidart
Mary Daly
Lynn Emanuel
Barry Hannah
Amy Hempel
Spring Literary Festival 2002
Stephen Dunn
Andrea Dworkin
Susan Griffin
Jim Harrison
Eleanor Wilner
Spring Literary Festival 2003
Molly Haskel
Ann Hood
Yusef Komunyakaa
Howard Norman
Loudon Wainwright III
Spring Literary Festival 2004
Carl Dennis
Al Lingis
Steven Millhauser
Sharon Olds
Mary Robison
Spring Literary Festival 2005
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Leonard Kriegel
Gregory Orr
Marilynne Robinson
Ellen Willis
Spring Literary Festival 2006
Rick Bass
Claire Bateman
Billy Collins
Francine Prose
Susan Stewart
Spring Literary Festival 2007
Kofi Awoonor
Ron Carlson
Chenjerai Hove
Nawal El Saadawi
Charles Simic
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Spring Literary Festival 2008
Lee K. Abbott
Thomas Glave
Michael Griffith
Kathryn Harrison
Tony Hoagland
Spring Literary Festival 2009
Kim Addonizio
Peter Ho Davies
David Kirby
Maggie Nelson
David Shields
Spring Literary Festival 2010
Lydia Davis
Robin Hemley
Mary Ruefle
George Saunders
Tim Seibles
Spring Literary Festival 2011
Rosellen Brown
Rita Dove
Debra Marquart
Padgett Powell
Tobias Wolff
Spring Literary Festival 2012
Denise Duhamel
Terrance Hayes
Amy Hempel
Richard Rodriguez
Susan Orlean
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel’s most recent books are Ka-Ching! (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), Mille et un Sentiments (Firewheel, 2005); Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001); The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999); and Kinky (Orchises Press, 1997). A bilingual edition of her poems, Afortunada de mí (Lucky Me), translated into Spanish by Dagmar Buchholz and David Gonzalez, came out in 2008 with Bartleby Editores (Madrid.)
Her work has been anthologized widely, including several issues of The Best American Poetry. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she is a professor at Florida International University in Miami. William D. Waltz, in Rain Taxi, writes "As I read her work [. . .] I feel like I'm taking a sneak peek at the future: Duhamel hints at a poetry that transcends irony and alienation. There's plenty of both here, but she's busy working them over [. . .] pushing so hard that the next step may be beyond what is known."
Terrance Hayes
One of the most compelling voices in American poetry, Terrance Hayes is the author of four books of poetry; Lighthead (2010), winner of the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry; Wind in a Box, winner of a Pushcart Prize; Hip Logic, winner of the National Poetry Series, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Muscular Music, winner of both the Whiting Writers Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has been a recipient of many other honors and awards, including four Best American Poetry selections, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Foundation.
His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Fence, The Kenyon Review, Jubilat, Harvard Review, and Poetry.
Lighthead, his most innovative collection, investigates how we construct experience, presenting “the light-headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time.” In Muscular Music, Hayes takes reader through a living library of cultural icons, from Shaft and Fat Albert to John Coltrane and Miles Davis. In Wind in a Box he explores how identity is shaped by race, heritage, and spirituality with the unifying motif being the struggle for freedom within containment. In Hip Logic, Hayes confronts racism, sexism, religion, family structure, and stereotypes with overwhelming imagery.
A Professor of Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University, Hayes lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and children.
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel is the author of four collections of stories. Her Collected Stories won the Ambassador Award for Best Fiction of the Year, and was named one of the New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. It was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Hempel has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States Artists Foundation fellowship, the REA Award for Fiction, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, GQ, Vanity Fair, The Quarterly, The Yale Review, Tin House, Playboy and many other publications; they have been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and others. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Vogue, O, the Oprah Magazine and many more.
She co-edited, with Jim Shepard, the poetry collection Unleashed, and is a Contributing Editor to Bomb magazine. A founding board member of The Deja Foundation, she teaches creative writing at Harvard and at Bennington.
Richard Rodriguez
Richard Rodriguez, one of America’s most important essayists and a master of the “personal essay,” writes about the intersection of his personal life with some of the great vexing issues of America. Rodriguez, the son of Mexican immigrant parents, grew up in Sacramento, California. He was an undergraduate at Stanford University. He went on to spend two years in a religious studies program at Columbia. He then studied English Renaissance literature at the Warburg Institute in London and was a doctoral candidate at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1982, he published an intellectual autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. Widely celebrated and criticized, this book is today read in many American high schools and colleges. A memoir of a “scholarship boy”, “Hunger” remains controversial for its skepticism regarding bilingual education and affirmative action.
In 1992, Rodriguez published Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, a "philosophical travel book," concerned with the moral landscape separating "Protestant America" and "Catholic Mexico." Days of Obligation was a runner-up for a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 1993. In 2002, Rodriguez published Brown: The Last Discovery of America. In a series of essays concerned with topics as varied as the cleaning of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cubism, and Broadway musicals, Rodriguez undermines America’s black and white notion of race and proposes the color brown for understanding the future (and past) of the Americas.
Rodriguez is currently working on two new books, one that deals with the 'Desert Religions' (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) and their role in the 21st century, and the other about beauty. As a journalist, Richard Rodriguez worked for over two decades for the Pacific News Service in San Francisco; he has also been a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He currently works for New American Media in San Francisco. Many Americans probably recognize him from his television appearances on PBS. For more than ten years he has appeared as an essayist on “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer”. His televised essays on American life were honored in 1997 with a George Peabody Award.
In 1993, Richard Rodriguez was given the Frankel Medal (now renamed “The National Humanities Medal”), the highest honor the federal government gives to recognize work done in the humanities.
Susan Orlean
As one of the most creative literary journalists of today, Susan Orlean is the author of the best-selling book, The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Oscar-winning movie, Adaptation. Her latest work, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend tells the story of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin's improbable introduction to Hollywood leads to the dog's first blockbuster film and over time, the many radio programs, movies, and television shows that follow. The canine hero's legacy is cemented by Duncan and a small group of others who devote their lives to keeping him and his descendants alive.
At its heart, Rin Tin Tin is a poignant exploration of the enduring bond between humans and animals. But it is also a richly textured history of 20th century entertainment and entrepreneurship and the changing role of dogs in the American family and society. Almost ten years in the making, Orlean's first original book since The Orchid Thief is a tour de force of history, human interest, and masterful storytelling - something she shares with audiences in her multimedia presentations on the subject.
Orlean became a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1992. Orlean has written dozens of "Talk of the Town," "Profiles” and "Reporter at Large" articles, as well as a series of American popular culture columns, called "Popular Chronicles." The "Chronicles" thus far have included subjects such as an article on taxidermy, umbrella inventors, designer Bill Blass, Harlem high school basketball star Felipe Lopez, the friends and neighbors of Tonya Harding, and D.J. Red Alert, a hip-hop radio star in New York.
Prior to joining The New Yorker, Orlean was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also at Vogue, where she wrote about numerous figures in both the music and fashion industries. She has also contributed to Esquire, Smithsonian, New York Times Magazine, and many other publications.
Orlean has written several books, including, My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Ordinary People, Red Sox and Blue Fish, Saturday Night, Lazy Little Loafers, and The Orchid Thief, a narrative about orchid poachers in Florida.
Orlean teaches creative writing at NYU and has been a writer-in-residence at several universities. She received her B.A. with honors from the University of Michigan and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She lives in upstate New York and Los Angeles with her husband and son.
Writers In Residence Schedule
Writers in Residence 2011-2012 Schedule
Resident nonfiction writer, Ander Monson, will be on campus October 26th-28th. He will give a free public reading in Galbreath Chapel on Thursday, October 27th at 7:30pm.
Resident fiction writer, Porter Shreve, will be on campus January 11h-13th. He will give a free public reading in Galbreath Chapel on Thursday, January 12th at 7:30pm.
Resident poet, Adrienne Su, will be on campus February 15th-17th. She will give a free public reading in Galbreath Chapel on Thursday, February 16th at 7:30pm.
Writers in Residence
2011-2012 residents will be nonfiction writer Ander Monson, fiction writer Porter Shreve, and poet Adrienne Su.
Ander Monson
Ander Monson is the author of a host of paraphernalia including a decoder wheel, several chapbooks and limited edition letterpress collaborations, a website
Porter Shreve
Porter Shreve is the author of three novels, all with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Obituary Writer was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book and a Borders Original Voices Selection; Drives Like a Dream was a 2005 Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a People "Great Reads" Selection, and When the White House Was Ours was a 2008 Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year and a Reading Group Choices Featured Selection. He is coeditor of six anthologies, including the Contemporary American Short Story: A Longman Anthology and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye. Shreve’s book reviews, nonfiction, op-eds and short stories have appeared in Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
He is currently working on a new novel and a story cycle, both set in Chicago. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is now Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Purdue University.
Adrienne Su
Adrienne Su is the author of three books of poems, Middle Kingdom (Alice James Books, 1997), Sanctuary (Manic D Press, 2006), and Having None of It (Manic D Press, 2009). Her literary awards include a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for Arts, the Ralph Samuel Poetry Fellowship at Dartmouth College, and a summer as resident poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Since 2000, she has taught at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she is poet-in-residence.
Su, who holds an A.B. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, spent several peripatetic years as a freelance writer and editor, occasionally publishing essays on food and cooking, before taking up teaching. She has been in residence at The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her poems appear in anthologies including The New American Poets, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Best American Poetry, Literature and Its Writers, Poetry Slam, and Poetry Daily. Recent poems appear in Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, and Asian American Literary Review.
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2010-2011 residents were fiction writer Rob Roberge, poet Mark Cox, and essayist Rebecca McClanahan.
Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan has published nine books, most recently Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, which won the Glasgow Award for nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize series, and in collections published by Norton, Doubleday, Putnam, Beacon, and numerous other journals and anthologies.
McClanahan earned a B.A. from California State University and a Master’s and Ph.D. from University of South Carolina. For fifteen years she was Poet-in-Residence for Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools in North Carolina, a service for which she received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. A past recipient of the Wood Prize from Poetry, the Carter Prize for the essay from Shenandoah, and fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council, MacDowell Colony, and Bread Loaf, McClanahan teaches in the low-residency MFA programs of Queens University (Charlotte) and Rainier Writers Workshop (Tacoma). Her current work-in-progress, a multi-generational nonfiction saga, focuses on the difficulties and rewards of communal bonds.
Mark Cox
Mark Cox teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at UNC-Wilmington, and the Vermont College MFA in Writing Program. His honors include a Whiting Writers' Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize.
He has served as poetry editor of Passages North and of Cimarron Review, and has received fellowships from the Kansas Arts Commission, the Vermont Council on the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and The Frost Place, Robert Frost's family home, where he served as the 24th Poet‑in‑Residence. Cox has read and presented across 35 states and has published poems in many national anthologies and magazines such as Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The North American Review, The New England Review, and New Ohio Review.
His books are The Barbells of the Gods, (Ampersand, '88), Smoulder (Godine, '89), Thirty‑Seven Years from the Stone (Pitt Poetry Series, '98), and Natural Causes (Pitt Poetry Series, '04). He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Rob Roberge
Rob Roberge is the author of the book of stories, Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of My Life and the novels More Than They Could Chew and Drive. He teaches writing at the Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing, UC-Riverside’s Palm Desert MFA program and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where he received the Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing in 2003.
His stories have been featured in ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Black Clock, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Ten Writers Worth Knowing Issue of The Literary Review. His work has also been anthologized in Another City (City Lights, 2001), It’s All Good (Manic D Press, 2004) SANTI: Lives of the Modern Saints (Black Arrow Press, 2007) and Orange County Noir (Akashic, 2010). Non-fiction appears, or has appeared, in The Nervous Breakdown and Penthouse. He plays guitar and sings with several LA bands, including, among others, the punk pioneers, The Urinals. In his spare time, he restores and rebuilds vintage amplifiers and quack medical devices. For news and more info, visit & or email, go to www.robroberge.com.
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2009-2010 residents were fiction writer Josip Novakovich, poet David Wojahn, and essayist Brenda Miller.
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich (Croatian: Novaković) is a Croatian-American writer who grew up in the Central Croatian town of Daruvar and studied medicine in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. At the age of 20 he left Yugoslavia, continuing his education at Vassar College (B.A.), Yale University (M.Div.), and the University of Texas, Austin (M.A.). He has published a novel, April Fool's Day, three short story collections Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, two collections of narrative essays Apricots from Chernobyl, Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey and a textbook Fiction Writer's Workshop.
Novakovich has taught at Nebraska Indian Community College, Bard College, Moorhead State University, Antioch University in Los Angeles, the University of Cincinnati, and is currently a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Novakovich is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, an award from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O.Henry Prize Stories.
David Wojahn
David Wojahn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1953, and attended the University of Minnesota and the University of Arizona. His first collection, Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and published in 1982. The collection was also the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award. His second collection, Glassworks, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1987 and won the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for the best volume of poetry to be published during that year. Pittsburgh is also the publisher of four of his subsequent books, Mystery Train (1990), Late Empire (1994), The Falling Hour (1997) and Spirit Cabinet (2002). His most recent collection, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, published by Pittsburgh in 2006, was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was the winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Wojahn is also the author of a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, Strange Good Fortune (University of Arkansas Press, 2001), editor (with Jack Myers) of A Profile of 20th Century American Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), and two posthumous collections of Lynda Hull’s poetry, The Only World (HarperCollins, 1995) and Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois and Indiana Councils for the Arts, and in 1987-88 was the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar. He has taught at a number of institutions, among them Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston, the University of Alabama, and the University of New Orleans. He is presently Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is also a member of the program faculty of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of the Fine Arts.
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Special Programs 2008-2009 Schedule
Resident poet, Olena Kalytiak Davis, will be on campus February 16-18. She will give a free public reading at Galbreath Chapel, Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30pm.
Resident fiction writer, Margot Singer, will be on campus March 4-6. She will give a free public reading at Galbreath Chapel, Thursday, March 5th at 7:30pm.
The Spring Literary Festival will be held May 6-8.
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The Special Programs office of the English Department coordinates events sponsored by the Creative Writing Department throughout the year including the Spring Literary Festival, the Writer's Harvest reading series, and writers in residence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
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Writer's Harvest Schedule
The Writer's Harvest will take place at 7:30 pm, Oct. 11th in the Forum Theater (Radio and Television Building). All proceeds from the $5 admission donation go to the Southeastern Ohio Food Bank's Second Harvest.
2011 Writer’s Harvest
Three renowned local writers will read from their work at a benefit reading hosted by Ohio University’s Program in Creative Writing, at 7:30pm, Tuesday, Oct. 11th in the Baker Center Theater, with a reception following in the alcove outside the theater. The benefit is part of Writer's Harvest, the nation’s largest reading series working to help fight hunger.
Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His books of poems are: Little Star (William Morrow, 1987), Tasker Street (University of Massachusetts, 1992), Selfwolf (University of Chicago, 1999), Jab (University of Chicago, 2002), and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal appeared in 1991 from Princeton University Press. He co-authored with Allen Grossman a book on poetics, The Sighted Singer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing in the English Department, Ohio University. His latest book is Sometimes there is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider published by Penguin Books in South Africa in May 2011, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA in February 2012. He is also the author of Cion, the Ohio University Common Reader book for 2008-2010
Rachael Peckham won the 2010 Robert Watson Poetry Award at Spring Garden Press for her chapbook of prose poems, Muck Fire, due out this fall. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Brevity, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Sentence, South Loop Review, Under the Sun, and several others. A 2009 graduate of Ohio University's Nonfiction program, she is currently an assistant professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where she teaches Creative Writing and American Literature.
UPDATE: Last year's Writers Harvest raised $1111 for the local food bank and our goal this year is $1500.
All proceeds from the $5 admission donation will go to the Southeastern Ohio Food Bank’s Second Harvest, a food distribution program serving Athens, Hocking, Perry, Lawrence, Vinton, Jackson, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan and Washington counties. Donations will be accepted in various locations throughout the week.
Please direct questions about the event to the Special Programs Office, Lindley 242, 707-3191.
Questions concerning larger donations to the Second Harvest Foodbank can be answered at the following numbers: 800-385-6813 or 740-385-6813.
2010 Spring Literary Festival
May 5-7, 2010
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The three-day festival is held in May on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public.
The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work. Books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program.
11:00 am, Baker Center Theater
Lecture by Trinh T. Minh-ha
8:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Trinh T. Minh-ha
7:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Chenjerai Hove
