Visiting Writers Series

Graduating MFA Reading is May 4

In a city long known for its creative activity and writers—including Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Katherine Anne Porter, Sterling Brown, William Meredith, and Doris Grumbach—we continue the tradition by serving as a lively venue for creative work by both established and emerging writers.

Visiting writers and writers in residence have included Grace Paley, Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Mark Doty, Yusef Komunyakaa, Richard Rodriguez, Li-Young Lee, Marie Howe, David Grossman, Colm Toíbín, Charles Johnson, Marilyn Hacker, Alice McDermott, Jamaica Kincaid Manil Suri, Major Jackson, Tony Hoagland, Leila Aboulela, Maxine Clair, and Tillie Olsen.

2007-2008 Schedule

Faculty Poetry and Prose Reading: Benefit for "Food and Friends"
October 3 at Butler Board Room

Memoir Reading and Performance: Martin Moran
October 17 at Katzen Arts Center, Studio Theatre

Fiction Reading: Tayari Jones
October 31 at Butler Board Room

MFA Alumni Lecture with Alex Glass: Working with a Literary Agent
November 14 at Butler Board Room

Fiction Reading: Mary Gaitskill
February 13 at Butler Board Room

Fiction Reading: Alison Smith
February 27 at Butler Board Room

Poetry Reading: Edward Hirsch
March 19 at Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall

Graduating MFA Student Reading
May 4 at Kay Spiritual Life Center

Previous Programs

2005-2006 (pdf)      2004-2005 (pdf)      2003-2004 (pdf)

2002-2003 (pdf)      2001-2002      1998-1999