Readings + Lectures - Calendar
Fall 2011:
September 15- Amanda Auchter and Rigoberto Gonzalez
November 7 - Ashley Butler
November 22 - Bread and Words
December 7 - Barry Kitterman
Spring 2012:
March 16 - Billy Collins
April 2 - Marilyn Kallet
April 19 - William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk
Amanda Auchter and Rigoberto Gonzalez
September 15, 2011, 4 pm, Gentry Auditorium
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Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the
author of The Glass Crib, winner of the Zone 3 First Book Award for
Poetry. She has received awards and honors from
Bellevue Literary Review, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, BOMB
Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, the Southern Indiana
Review, and has been included in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets,
and Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from Bennington College. |
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Rigoberto González is the author of the memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He is also the author of two award-winning poetry collections, two bilingual children’s books, the story collection Men without Bliss, and the novel Crossing Vines, winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Fiction Book of the Year Award. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, he is a contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics’ Circle, and is on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta, a collective of Chicano/Latino activist writers. He is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University at Newark. (rigobertogonzalez.com) |
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Ashley Butler
November 7, 2011,
8:00 pm, Honors Commons
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Virginia native Ashley Butler earned a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Dear Sound of Footstep, a collection of essays published by Sarabande Books in 2009. Her essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, jubilat, Gulf Coast, Creative Nonfiction, and POOL. She lives in Texas. (from Sarabandebooks.org) |
Barry Kitterman
December 7,
2011, 8:00 pm, MMC Concert Hall
| Barry Kitterman grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. In the mid-70s he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize (Central America) where he taught in a boys reform school. He is the author of the short story collection From the San Joaquin (SMU Press, 2011) and of the novel The Baker's Boy (SMU Press, 2008), which won the 2009 Maria Thomas Peace Corps Award for Fiction. His stories have appeared in Cutbank, Flyway, The Chariton Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and other literary magazines. He lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he teaches creative writing at Austin Peay State University and serves as fiction editor for the literary journal, Zone 3. (barrykitterman.com) |
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Billy Collins
March 16, 2012, 7:30 pm, MMC Concert Hall
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Billy Collins has published eight collections of poetry, including
Questions About Angels,
The Art of Drowning, Picnic, Lightning, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes, Sailing Alone Around the Room:
New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, and
Ballistics. A collection of his haiku, She Was
Just Seventeen, was published by Modern Haiku Press in fall 2006. He also edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry:
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry and 180
More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2006,
and edited Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds, with paintings by David Allen Sibley (November 2009). His newest book,
a collection of poems entitled Horoscopes for the Dead, will be published in spring 2011.
In June 2001, Billy Collins was appointed United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003. In January 2004, he was named New York State Poet Laureate 2004-06. Billy Collins is a Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York, as well as a Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College. (taken from barclayagency.com) |
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Marilyn Kallet
April 2, 2012,
4:00 pm, Honors Commons
| Award-winning poet Marilyn Kallet was born in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up in New York. The author of fourteen books, including poetry, translations, anthologies, criticism, and children's books, she received her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from Rutgers. Recent books include Packing Light: New & Selected Poems (Black Widow Press, 2009), Circe, After Hours (BkMk Press, 2005), and Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard, translations from Black Widow Press. A new edition of her children's book Jack The Healing Cat was published in 2010 by Celtic Cat Publishing. Kallet is Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. (taken from marilynkallet.com) |
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The Center Salon Series presents a reading with William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk
April 19, 2012, 4:00 pm, Honors Commons
| William Pitt Root's poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Nation. His eleven volumes of poetry include White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West (2006) and The Storm and Other Poems (1969), reissued in Carnegie Mellon's Classic Contemporary Series in 2005. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Pamela Uschuk is professor of creative writing at Fort Lewis College, the editor-in-chief of Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and the author of five volumes of poetry. Her most recent collection, Crazy Love, won the 2010 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She lives in Durango, Colorado, with her husband, William Pitt Root. |
