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Readings, Performances,
Celebrations
Spring 2009
Deb Olin Unferth
January 28, 2009
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Global Women Writers Now
Notre Dame Women Writers' Festival 2009
Kim Hyesoon, of Korea & Laura Solórzano, of Mexico
Plus translators Don Mee Choi and Jen Hofer.
February 8,9,10,11, 2009
Program:
Sunday, February 8, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
LaFortune, Ballroom
Student Open mic
Monday, February 9, 2009
4:00-5:15 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Panel: "Women in International Literary Cultures"
Gender Studies's Managing Gender at Work lecture series (also featuring Professor Briona NicDhiarmada of Notre Dame Irish Studies
5:15-6:30 p.m.
Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Great Hall
Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Trilingual performance (Spanish, Korean, English)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
10:30 a.m.
Room C103, Hesburgh Center
Translation: Politics and Practice, a roundtable for translators,students, and faculty
Kristen Eliason
2008 Sparks Prize Winner
February 25, 2009
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Lily Hoang
March 4, 2009
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Luisa Igloria
2009 Sandeen Prize winner
March 18, 2009
Eck Visitor Center Auditorium
7:30 p.m.
Emily DiFilippo & Iris Law
March 25, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Tasha Matsumoto, Sami Schalk & Lindsay Starck
April 1, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Daniel Citro, Ryan Downey & Jen Penkethman
April 8, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Melanie Cotter & Donald Cowan
April 15, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
Celebrate National Poetry Month
with members of the Creative Writing Program's students, faculty and emeriti, a tag team poetry extravaganza!
April 16, 2009
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Hammes Bookstore
Readers include:
Sonia Gernes
John Matthias
John Wilkinson
Daniel Citro
Ryan Downey
Kristen Eliason
Iris Law
Jessica Martinez
Monica Mody
Grant Osborn
Jared Randall
Stephanie White
Monica Mody & Elijah Park
April 22, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Celebrate National Poetry Month
with members of the Creative Writing Program's students, faculty and emeriti, a tag team poetry extravaganza!
April 23, 2009
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Hammes Bookstore
Readers include:
Sonia Gernes
John Matthias
John Wilkinson
Daniel Citro
Ryan Downey
Kristen Eliason
Iris Law
Jessica Martinez
Monica Mody
Grant Osborn
Jared Randall
Stephanie White
Ben Marcus
April 29, 2009
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
MFA Final Thesis Reading
May 1, 2009
7:00 p.m.
LaFortune Ballroom
Fall 2008
Pat Hazell
September 19, 2008
Pizza Conversation with students/faculty
339 O'Shaughnessy
noon
Raúl Jara, Jessica Martinez & Stephanie White
September 30, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
Brian Evenson
October 7, 2008
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Jaclyn Dwyer & Alicia Guarracino
October 14, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
Desmond Kon & Mike Valente
October 28, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
Justin Perry & Jared Randall
November 4, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
NDLF
Rivka Galchen
November 6, 2008
Q&A 4-5 p.m. LaFortune, McNeill Room
Reading 8:00 p.m. Montgomery Auditorium
Kim Blaeser
November 11, 2008
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
NDLF
Marisa Silver
November 12, 2008
Q&A Session, Dooley Room, LaFortune
5:00 p.m.
Reading, Reception, Book Signing
Dooley Room, LaFortune
8:00 p.m.
NDLF
Aleksandar Hemon
November 17, 2009
Q&A Session, Dooley Room, LaFortune
4:00 p.m.
Reading
Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune
8:00 p.m.
Reception, Book Signing
McNeill Room, LaFortune
9:00 p.m.
G.F. Michelsen
November 18, 2008
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Brendan Short
November 20, 2008
Hammes Bookstore
5:30 p.m.
Graham Foust & Cathy Wagner
December 2, 2008
Hammes Bookstore
7:30 p.m.
Grant Osborn & Ryan Glenn Smith
December 9, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
SPRING 2008
Honorée Jeffers
January 23
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
Jackson Bliss, 2007 Sparks Prize Winner
February 6
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
reading from his novel BLANK
Lula's Reading
Matt Benedict, Jaclyn Dwyer, Alicia Guarracino
February 13
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Reading
Desmond Kon, Grant Osborn, Justin Perry
February 20
7:30 p.m.
Tony D'Souza
March 12
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from his novel The Konkans
Marilyn Krysl
2008 Sullivan Prize Winner
March 19
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
reading from Dinner with Osama
Danielle Dutton & Joyelle McSweeney
March 26
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
Dutton reads from Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L
McSweeney reads from Nylund, the Sarcographer and Flet
Lula's Reading
Jessica Martinez, Ryan Smith, Stephanie White
April 2
7:30 p.m.
Thane Rosenbaum
Liss Lecturer
"After Auschwitz and the Twin Towers: Trauma and Memory"
April 7
7:45 p.m.
McKenna Hall
Schedule
Lula's Reading
Raul Jara and Jared Randall, Michael Valente
April 9
7:30 p.m.
A Festival of Our Own: Women Writers at Notre Dame
Lily Hoang
Alice McDermott
Katherine Vaz
April 15 - 16
Schedule & Bios
MFA Thesis Reading
April 28
7:00 p.m.
Philbin Studio Theatre
(a free but ticketed event)
FALL 2007
Julia Alvarez & Gao Xingjian
September 10-13 [click for schedule of events]
Ann Cummins
September 19
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Yellowcake
Angela Hur
September 26
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from The Queens of K-Town
Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson
October 9
8:00 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
Lula's Reading
Jarrett Haley, Susan Ramsey, Valerie Sayers
October 10
7:30 p.m.
Michael Anania
October 17
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
reading from Heat Lines
Valerie Martinez & Gabriel Gomez
October 30
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
Student Literature Night
Tuesday, November 6
7:30 PM
Coleman-Morse Lounge
click for schedule of events
Lula's Reading
Kristen Eliason & Darin Graber
November 7
7:30 p.m.
Patricia Smith
(performance poet, playwright, biographer, children's author)
Tuesday 11/13
4:00 pm Q&A
Montgomery Auditorium (LaFortune)
8:00 pm Slam Performance
Legends
click for schedule of events
Michael Heller & Hank Lazer
November 14
4:30 p.m. lecture in Hesburgh Center Auditorium
7:00 p.m. reading in Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
Lydia Davis
(short story author, translator, novelist)
Thursday 11/15
5:00 pm Q&A
McNeill Room (LaFortune)
8:00 pm Reading
Notre Dame Room (LaFortune)
9:00 pm Reception
McNeill Room (LaFortune)
click for schedule of events
Steve Almond
(journalist, essayist, fiction writer)
Monday, 11/19
4:00 pm Q & A
McNeill Room (LaFortune)
8:00 pm Reading and Reception
LaFortune Ballroom
click for schedule of events
Peter Davis & Dan Machlin
November 26
7:30 p.m.
Gold Room, North Dining Hall
Larry Doyle
(novelist, film and television writer, producer)
Tuesday, November 27
4:00 pm Q&A
McNeill Room (LaFortune)
7:30 pm Reading
Montgomery Room (LaFortune)
8:30 pm Reception
Dooley Room (LaFortune)
click for schedule of events
Lula's Reading
Brenna Casey, Veronica Fitzpatrick & Brian Lysholm
November 28
6:30 p.m.
Michael Martone
(short story author, non-fiction writer, editor)
Wednesday 11/28
5:00 pm Q&A
McNeill Room (LaFortune)
8:00 pm Reading and Reception
LaFortune Ballroom
click for schedule of events
Lula's Reading
Orlando Menes, Rumit Pancholi & Christina Yu
December 5
7:30 p.m.
Steve Tomasula
December 7
7:30 p.m.
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Warner Gallery
(Reception, 5-7:30 p.m. in conjunction with the FLATLAND exhibition.)
Lula's Reading
Raechel Lee & Silpa Swarnapuri
December 12
7:30 p.m.
SPRING 2007
Gwendolyn Oxenham, MFA alum (2006)
Sparks Prize Winner 2006
January 30, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Essence Game
Jarrett Haley, Susan Ramsey & Matt Benedict
January 31, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Chloe's Cabaret
Cornelius Eady curates Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation with guest poets:
Tyehimba Jess & Tracie Morris
February 3, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:oo p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
Notre Dame Literary Festival NDLF (click for poster of event)
February 5-8
Monday, February 5
Lolita Hernandez, short story author, poet
10:30 a.m. Cafecito in 210-214 McKenna (co-sponsored by ILS)
8:00 p.m. reading in LaFortune Ballroom
&
Nathalie Handal, poet, playwright, director, producer
4:00 p.m. workshop 306 Foster Room, LaFortune
7:00 p.m. reading LaFortune Ballroom
Tuesday, February 6
Hal Sirowitz, poet
4:00 p.m. workshop McNeil Room, LaFortune
8:00 p.m. reading Oak Room, South Dining Hall
Wednesday, February 7
David Rakoff, essayist, humorist
8:00 p.m. reading in LaFortune Ballroom
Thursday, February 8
Anne Elizabeth Moore, freelance writer, zine editor
3:00 p.m. workshop Notre Dame Room, LaFortune
6:30 p.m. reading 129 DeBartolo
&
Dave Eggers, novelist, essayist, editor, founder of McSweeney's
4:00 p.m. workshop Notre Dame Room
8:00 p.m. reading 101 Debartolo
additional details contact: Megan Baker, NDLF Programmer
Lance Olsen
February 20, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Nietzsche's Kisses
Brenna Casey, Veronica Fitzpatrick & Brian Lysholm
February 21, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Darin Graber & Kristen Eliason
February 28, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Jude Nutter, 2007 Sandeen Prize Winner
March 6, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from The Curator of Silence
Gathering Ground:
A 10th Year Celebration of the Cave Canem Workshop
March 7-9, 2007
Schedule in PDF format
Clayton Eshleman
March 21, 2007
4:30 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
talk on the Vallejo translation saga
8:00 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading the Spanish originals of Vallejo translations with Orlando Menes
March 22, 2007
8:00 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
poetry reading by Eshleman with Johannes Goransson
(sponsored by Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Romance Languages & Literatures, PhD in Literature, English Dept and the Creative Writing Program)
Rumit Pancholi & Christina Yu
March 28, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Patrick McCabe
March 29, 2007
7:00 p.m.
McKenna Auditorium
Chloe's Cabaret
Francisco Aragon curates
Poetry with Richard Blanco & Naomi Ayala
Chloe's Cabaret
Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation
March 30, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:oo p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
New British poets:
Andrea Brady, Peter Manson , Keston Sutherland
April 3&4, 2007
link to the poets' work: Archive of the Now
Raechel Lee & Silpa Swarnapuri
April 11, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Chloe's Cabaret
Francisco Aragon curates
Poetry with Victor Hernández Cruz
Chloe's Cabaret
Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation
April 19, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:oo p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
MFA Thesis Reading
April 24
7:00 p.m.
The Gold Room, North Dining Hall
FALL 2006
Chloe's Cabaret
Joyelle McSweeney curates
Poetry with Barbara Jane Reyes & Abraham Smith
Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation
September 7, 2006
8:00 p.m. - 11:oo p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
Jackson Bliss & Lynne Chien
September 13, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
William Fuller
September 20, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Watchword
Steve Tomasula
September 23, 2006
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble reading from his latest book, The Book of Portraiture
Katie Hunter & Orlando Menes,
September 27, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Josie Vodicka, MFA poetry alum (2000)
Friday, September 29, 2006
1:00-1:45 p.m.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Hammes Notre Dame bookstore
performing from her latest CD Close Your Eyes
Chloe's Cabaret
Francisco Aragon curates
Poetry with Lidia Torres & Urayoán Noel
Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation
October 4, 2006
9:00 p.m. - 11:oo p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
Colby Davis & Sheheryar Sheikh
October 11, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
John Wilkinson
October 25, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Lake Shore Drive
Suzanne Jill Levine
October 26, 2006
Hesburgh Library, Dept of Special Collections
4:00 p.m. reception precedes lecture at 4:30 p.m.
lecture on her work translating the novels of Argentine writer Manuel Puig
"Biography and Translation: Two Approaches to Manuel Puig"
Tim Chilcote & Kevin Hattrup
November 1, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Jason Berry
November 2, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
author of Lead Us Not into Temptation reads from his new novel, Last of the Red Hot Poppas
William O'Rourke
November 4, 2006
11:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Notre Dame Bookstore
booksigning of On Having a Heart Attack: A Medical Memoir
Dave Griffith
November 7, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America
Beth Couture, Lily Hoang, & Katie Pilles-Genaw
November 15, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Sam Hazo, poet
November 17, 2006
noon
339 O'Shaughnessy
lunch talk
Chloe's Cabaret
Joyelle McSweeney curates
Poetry with Sandy Florian & Cathy Park Hong
Poetry-Music-Coffee-Conversation
November 19, 2006
7:00 p.m.
Regis Philbin Arts Center (PAC)
Factotum (2006)
Film based on a Charles Bukowski story
November 30 and December 1
7:00 and 10 p.m. showings
DPAC
reviews: Detroit Free Press
Los Angeles Times
Adam Clay & Alex Lemon
November 30, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
Peter Robinson
December 1, 2006
4:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room
reading from his latest book of poems
Kelly Kerney, MFA alum (2005), Sparks Prize Winner
December 6, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall
reading from Born Again
SPRING 2006
Sparks Prize Winner
Angela Hur
January 25, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
February 1
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
reading from her short stories, This Life She's Chosen
Notre Dame Literary Festival
February 13-17
Schedule of events
James Salter
Februray 13
3:00 p.m. "Conversations with the Author"
LaFortune: Foster Room 306
7:00 p.m. reading
South Dining Hall Oak Room, second floor
Colby Davis & Sarah Micklem
February 21
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Jerome Rothenberg
February 23
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Ed Falco
March 1
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Lynne Chien, Sheheryar Sheikh, John Wilkinson
March 7
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Crisis and Detour: 25 Years of Today
An International Conference in Commemoration of the Founding of Jintian
March 19-21, 2006
Russell Banks
Robert Coover
Maxine Hong-Kingston
Michael Palmer
C.D. Wright
Schedule of events
Russell Working
March 23
2006 Sullivan Prize winner
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Russell Working's fiction has appeared in such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, and The Triquarterly Review. He is a past winner of an Iowa Short Fiction Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Oak Park, Illinois.
Robert Adamson
March 27
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
J. Jackson Bliss & Katie Pilles-Genaw
March 28
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Tim Chilcote & Kevin Hattrup
April 4
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Brenda Cárdenas, Paul Martínez Pompa and Michelle Otero
April 6
7:00 p.m.
Regis Philbin Studio Theatre (The Black Box)
Paul Martínez-Pompa is a graduate of the University of Chicago. His chapbook of poetry, Pepper Spray, was published by Momotombo Press in the winter of 2006. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where he also served as a poetry editor for the Indiana Review. His work has appeared in various journals, including After Hours: a journal of Chicagowriting and art, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Rhino. He currently teaches composition and creative writing at Triton College in River Grove, Illinois. He lives with his wife in Chicago.
Michelle Otero is a graduate of Harvard University. Her collection of essays, Malinche’s Daughter, was published by Momotombo Press in the spring 2006. She is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing in Vermont College’s low-residency program. A former Fulbright Fellow, Otero lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she conducts writing workshops for woman, particularly survivors of sexual assault. Her work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Border Senses, and other journals in the US and Mexico. A recipient of a fellowship from Hedgebrook, a retreat center or women writers, Otero is currently on a memoir ofgeographic and metaphoric borders based her grandfather’s service in World War II and her southern New Mexico upbringing.
Brenda Cárdenas holds an MFA from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her chapbook of poetry, From the Tongues of Brick and Stone, was published by Momotombo Press in in the Fall 2005. She also co-edited and contributed to Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press, 2001). Her work has appeared in various publications, including Poetic Voices Without Borders, U.S. Latino Literature Today, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, and Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry About School, among others. With Sondio Ink (quieto), a spoken word and music ensemble, she co-produced and released the CD Chicano, Illinoize: The Blue Island Sessions, in 2001. She currently teaches at Milwaukee Area Technical College in Wisconsin.
Beth Couture, Cornelius Eady, Katie Hunter
April 187:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Frances Sherwood
reading from her new book, Night of Sorrows
April 23
4:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
Tony D'Souza
April 25
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
MFA Thesis Reading
April 28
7:30 p.m.
LaFortune Ballroom
FALL 2005
Literary Council Book Fair
September 10
7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble
Original poetry and prose from
Renee D'Aoust
Joe Hughes
Orlando Menes
Tom Miller
Frances Sherwood
September 20
7:00 p.m. Location McKenna Hall, room 210-214 reception to follow sponsored by Gender Studies
Frances lectured on her novel of Wollstonecraft,
"Meeting Mary Wollstonecraft: Legacy as Personal Odyssey"
Raworth Day at Notre Dame
September 20
4:30 pm
Snite Museum
Ned Balbo, Ernest Sandeen Prize winner
September 21
7:30 p.m.
Location Hospitality Room, South Dining Hall
Balbo will read from his two poetry collections, Galileo's Banquet, which received the Towson University Prize for Literature andLives of the Sleepers which won the 2005 Ernest Sandeen Prize.
A native of Long Island, NY, he is the recipient of two Maryland Arts Council grants in poetry, the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize for the essay "Walt Whitman's Finches: on autobiography and adoption." His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Dogwood, and many others.
Renee D'Aoust & Mary Dixon
September 28
7:30 p.m.
Lulas Café
Sheryl Luna & Robert Vasquez
October 4
7:00 p.m.
Regis Philbin Studio Theatre (The Black Box)
The Long Reach of African-American Poetics
October 5,6,7
a mini-conference at the University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, October 5
7:30 p.m. Reading: Sharan Strange and Rowan Phillips.
Notre Dame Downtown, 217 S. Michigan Street, South Bend.
Reception to follow.
Thursday, October 6
2 - 3:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: “The Long Reach of African American Poetics,” with the poets and Ivy Wilson, Department of English; moderated by Keith D. Lee, Department of Africana Studies. 100-104 McKenna Hall.
5 p.m. Pre-reading reception. McKenna Hall.
5:30 p.m. Reading: Elizabeth Alexander and Natasha Trethewey. 100-104 McKenna Hall.
Friday, October 7
10:00 – 11:30 p.m. Poetry workshop led by Keith D. Lee. 208 McKenna Hall.
11:45 – 12:35. Classroom Q & A with the poets.
Yvonne Mackay
October 8
7:00-9:45 p.m.
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Scott Eden
October 14
noon-2:00 pm
339 O'Shaughnessy
"Conversation with Scott"
October 16
3:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
reading from Touchdown Jesus
Sandy Dedo, Lily Hoang & Valerie Sayers
October 12
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Café
Joe Hughes & Matt Ricke
October 26
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Sarah Micklem
Book Discussion & Signing
"Research and Invention in Writing Fantasy"
Barnes & Noble
Friday, October 28
7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble
Danna Ephland & Tom Miller
November 2
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Orlando Menes
November 9
4:30 pm.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Nate Gunsch & Gwendolyn Oxenham
November 16
7:30 p.m.
Lula's Cafe
Kevin Ducey
November 30
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room, Reckers South Dining Hall
Ruth Ellenson
December 5
Noon Conversation with the Author
339 O'Shaughnessy
7:00 p.m. reading at Barnes & Noble
SPRING 2005
Poetry at Notre Dame Panel Discussion
with
Robert Archambeau
Joe Doerr
Kevin Ducey
Mary Hawley
Melita Schaum
April 27, 2005
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Notre Dame Room, LaFortune
To honor Sonia Gernes & John Matthias' retirements
There will be Reading & Tributes for Sonia and John at 8:00 pm
in the Ballroom of LaFortune.
MFA Theses Reading
April 25, 2005
LaFortune Ballroom
7:00 p.m.
Ireland Beyond Borders
American Conference for Irish Studies
April 13 - 17, 2005
Joe Hughes, Gwendolyn Oxenham, Matthew Ricke, and Sandra Dedo
April 13, 2005
read selections from their works
7:30 p.m.
Lula's
Francisco Aragón
April 12
4 PM
210 McKenna Hall
Reception to follow
Francisco is an alumnus of the MFA Program, ILS Fellow
and he will read from his first book, Puerta del Sol.
A native of San Francisco and long-time resident of Spain, Francisco Aragón received his MFA in 2003. His anthology publications include Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (W.W. Norton & Company, 2001), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (Heyday Books, 2002), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001) and, most recently, Red, White, & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2004). His poems and translations have appeared in Chain, Crab Orchard Review, Chelsea, Heliotrope, Puerto del Sol, Luna, The Journal, ZYZZYVA, and the online literary journals, Jacket and Electronic Poetry Review. He is the Editor of Momotombo Press (www.momotombopress.com), currently housed at the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) where he also coordinates the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and "Poetas y Pintores," a multidisciplinary initiative in partnership with Saint Mary's College and the NEA which involves the visual arts and poetry. He is currently editing an anthology of emerging Latino poets slated for publication in 2006 with University of Arizona Press.
Valerie Sayers April 6, 2005 read at St Mary's, Moreau 232 7:00 p.m.
Aesthetics of Belief: A Conference for Catholic Writers
April 3-5, 2005
PROGRAM:
SUNDAY, April 3
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks followed by a reading from poet, Paul Mariani McKenna Hall Auditorium
MONDAY, April 4
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Reading by novelist, Katherine Vaz
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Reading by poet, Demetria Martinez
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Reading by novelist/short story writer, Tim Gautreaux McKenna Hall Auditorium
TUESDAY, April 5
9:30 a.m.
Cafecito with Demetria Martinez 208 McKenna Hall
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion featuring all four writers, chaired by Valeries Sayers, Kevin Hart, and Campbell Irving McKenna Hall Auditorium
The Aesthetics of Belief Conference for Catholic Writers
will take place at the McKenna Center for Continuing Education, University of
Notre Dame. The conference will feature a collection of Catholic poets and
writers offering readings and discussion of their work, as well as giving their
insights into the current state of Catholic literature in America from a
writer's point of view. The conference will feature the following guests:
Novelist Tim Gautreaux has taught writing at Southeast Louisiana University for
thirty years. He has published numerous books of fiction, including the short
story collections Same Place, Same Things and Welding with Children, and the
novels The Next Step in the Dance and most recently The Clearing. His stories
have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, and Zoetrope, as well as in a number
of anthologies, including Best American Short Stories.
Poet and scholar Paul Mariani is the author of five collections of poetry,
including most recently The Great Wheel and Salvage Operations: New & Selected,
as well numerous books of prose and biography, including Thirty Days: On Retreat
with the Exercises of St. Ignatius, God and the Imagination: On Poets, Poetry,
and the Ineffable, The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane, and Lost Puritan: A
Life of Robert Lowell. His books have been short-listed for the American Book
Award and been named New York Times Notable Books of the year. His honors
include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He currently holds
a Chair in Poetry at Boston College.
Poet and journalist Demetria Martinez is author of a novel, Western States Book
Award for Fiction winner Mother Tongue, two books of poetry, Breathing Between
the Lines and The Devil's Workshop, and a soon to be released book of essays,
Confessions of a Berlitz Tape Chicana. She is currently a columnist for the
National Catholic Reporter.
Writer Katherine Vaz is the author of three books of fiction, including Suadade,
Mariana, and Fado & Other Stories. Both her fiction and non-fiction have been
published in The Antioch Review, Five Points Journal, and The New York Times,
among many others. She has also published children's literature and won a
number of awards, most notably the Portuguese-American Women's Association
Woman of the Year Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a lecturer at Harvard
University.
Readings by these authors will take place Sunday, April 3 through Monday, April
4. On Tuesday, April 5, they will take part in a panel discussion on Catholic
literature in America today chaired by Valerie Sayers. All events are free and
open to the public.
The Aesthetics of Belief Conference for Catholic Writers is co-sponsored by the
Creative Writing Program, the Cushwa Center for the Study of American
Catholicism, the Institute for Latino Studies, the Department of English, the
Religion and Literature Journal, and notably from the Dean's Office in the
College of Arts and Letters and the Henkels Lecture Series.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Vancouver March 30 - April 2, 2005
Nathan Gunsch and Dustin Rutledge March 30, 2005 read selections from their works 7:30 p.m. Lula's
Bei Dao Chinese poet and human rights activist, who has been short-listed recently for the Nobel Prize, will read his poetry on March 16, 2005
Eck Center Auditorium with a reception to follow
4:30 p.m.
Kelly Kerney
the Nicholas Sparks Fellow read from her new collection of short stories, The Good News
March 16 7:00 p.m. Hospitality Room of Reckers, South Dining Hall with a reception to follow the reading
Suji Kwock Kim March 3, 2005
7:00 p.m. Hospitality Room, Reckers, South Dining Hall She read from her latest book of poetry, Notes From The Divided Country which won The Nation/ Discovery Award, the 2002 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa), and the 2003 Bay Area Book Reviewers Award,
and was a finalist for the 2003 Griffin International Poetry Prize and the 2003 PEN Center USA Award. Her recent poems have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Slate, and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition and All Things Considered.
Emmanuel Moses March 2, 2005 He read from his latest book of poetry, Last News of Mr. Nobody. 7:30 p.m. Ballroom of LaFortune
Danna Ephland, Ben Heller, and Tom Miller February 23, 2005 read selections from their work 7:30 p.m. Lula's
Notre Dame Literary Festival
(NDLF)
February 10 - 17 in Washington Hall
2/10 - Songwriting Workshop with Rob Gonzalez
3-4 pm
LaFortune Ballroom
2/14 - Mystery Writing Workshop with Prof. Ralph McInerny 3-4:30 pm McNeill Room in LaFortune
- Presentation by Todd Tucker, author of Notre Dame vs. The Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan 7:30-9:00 pm
Oak Room above South Dining Hall Reception will follow.
2/15 - Authors Panel with Professor Ralph McInerny and James C. Martin 3:00-4:30 pm McNeill Room in LaFortune
- Presentation by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, authors of The Nanny Diaries and Citizen Girl 7:30-9:00 pm Washington Hall Reception will follow.
2/16 - Original Performance Night 7:00-10:30 pm LaFortune Ballroom
2/17 - Children's Literature Writing Workshop with Mick Foley author of Have A Nice Day!, Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos and Tietam Brown
4:00-5:30 pm McNeill Room in LaFortune
- Presentation by Mick Foley 8:00-9:30 pm Washington Hall Reception to follow.
Renee D'Aoust and Lily Hoang February 9, 2005 read selections from their work 7:30 p.m. Lula's
Steve Tomasula
January 21, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
He read from his new work VAS: An Opera in Flatland.
FALL 2004
Steven Corvoda, poet and Lisa Gonzales, fiction writer
November 17
4:00 p.m. 202 McKenna Hall
Steven Cordova is the author of Slow Dissolve (Momotombo Press, 2003). Born and raised in San Antonio, he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and did master's level work at New York University. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, The Cortland Review, The Journal, Puerto del Sol, Art & Understanding and other publications. His work has also appeared in the anthology Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000). He lives in New York City.
Lisa Gonzales is the author of the forthcoming Arroyo (Momotombo Press, 2004). She was born in Northern California and as a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, she received her MA in English Literature at the University of California at Davis. Presently she is in the MFA Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame. The stories in Arroyo are from Hearts of Palm: A Novel in Fados, her manuscript of linked fiction.
Ruth Kluger, is professor emeritus of German literature at UC-Irvine. She graduated from Hunter College in 1950 and received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She distinguished herself through scholarly writings on Kleist, Lessing, Stifter, and Grillparzer. Kluger was chair of the German department at Princeton University in the mid-1980s and has served on the executive council of the MLA. Still Alive has won eight distinguished awards.
Monday, November 8, 2004
Faculty Talk: 4 pm Debartolo 116
The Public Debate about Jews and Anti-Semitism in Today's GermanyÊ
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Gender Studies Talk 12 Noon 119 O'Shaughnessy
Women Writing for Women: Is There Serious Chick Lit?
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Public Lecture: 8 pm McKenna Auditorium at the Center for Continuing Education
Landscapes of Memory: Looking Back at the Holocaust after 60 Years
Readings from Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. she spoke to the Creative Writing MFA students and faculty in 339 O'Shaughnessy.
Orlando Menes Mark Stafford James Wilson
Tuesday, November 9
7:00 p.m.
Lula's
Bill Meissner
November 3
7:30 p.m.
Hospitality Room in Reckers of South Dining Hall
He is the author of three books of poetry and a collection of short stories. His writing has appeared in more than 150 journals, magazines, and anthologies. His numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, five PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Awards, two Loft-McKnight Awards, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. Meissner is the Director of Creative Writing at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
He read from his latest book, American Compass. American Compass is a personal comment on growing up in America as well as a political comment on the state of American culture, with its heroes and everyday people, its hopes and failures, its winners and losers.
William O'Rourke Janet McNally Jayne Marek
Wednesday, October 27
7:00 p.m.
Lula's
D.A. Powell
October 14
7:30 p.m. The Notre Dame Room in LaFortune
Award-winning poet D.A. Powell will visit Professor Gerry Bruns
and Professor Romana Huk's graduate seminar in the afternoon. D.A
Powell is the author of the highly acclaimed trilogy made up of
Tea (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), Lunch (Wesleyan University
Press, 2000), and Cocktails (Graywolf Press, 2004). Powell’s
numerous honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Annual Poetry Prize
from Boston Review, the Larry Levis Poetry Prize from Prairie Schooner,
and an NEA Fellowship. He has published his poems widely in such
journals as Boston Review, Chelsea, Chicago Review, Fence, Indiana
Review, Iowa Review, New American Writing, Pequod, Provincetown
Arts, and Puerto del Sol, among many others. He has taught widely,
most recently as Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University.
Valerie Sayers Lisa Gonzales Michael Estes
Tuesday, October 12
7:00 p.m.
Lula's
Richard Garcia
October 5
4:00 p.m.
McKenna Hall
Richard Garcia was born in San Francisco in 1941 and began writing in his teens. After publishing his chapbook, Selected Poems, in 1972, he stopped writing for a number of years until an encouraging letter from Octavio Paz convinced him to return to writing. He published a bilingual book for children, My Aunt Otilia's Spirits, in 1978, and University of Pittsburgh Press published The Flying Garcias in 1991. He earned the MFA degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College Writers' Program in 1994. His third volume of poetry, Rancho Notorious, was published by BOA Editions in 2001.
Richard's publication credits include Ploughshares and the Colorado Review, and among his numerous awards are the Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the poet-in-residence at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles for twelve years, where he conducted workshops in art and poetry for hospitalized children. He now teaches creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles, California State University Long Beach, and the Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program.
Co-sponsored by The Institute for Latino Studies
Sonia Gernes Angela Hur Shannon Berry
Tuesday, October 5
7:00 p.m.
Lula's
Gary Gildner
September 29
7:30 p.m. Hospitality Room in Reckers of South Dining Hall
Gary Gildner lives and writes on a ranch in Idaho's Clearwater Mountains. His 17 published books include Blue Like the Heavens: New & Selected Poems, The Second Bridge, (a novel), A Week in South Dakota (short stories), The Warsaw Sparks (a memoir about coaching a baseball team in Communist Poland), The Bunker in the Parsley Fields, which received the 1996 Iowa Poetry prize and his latest selection of short stories from which he will read, Somewhere Geese are Flying. He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, and the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes.
Gildner has been writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, and Michigan State University, and has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland and to Czecholosvakia. He has given readings of his work at the Library of Congress, The Academy of American Poets, YM-YWHA (New York), Manhattan Theatre Club, and at some 200 colleges and schools in the U.S. and abroad.
Literacy Council Book Fair
Valerie Sayers
Renee D'Aoust
Becky Pennell
Janet McNally
Mark Stafford
September 25
8:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
Michael Collins
September 8
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
He had a book signing and read from his new work Lost Souls.
James McCorkle
Tuesday, September 14
7:00 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Professor McCorkle is the author of Evidences, winner of the Honickman First Book Poetry Prize for 2003. He is also the author of The Still Performance: Writing, Self, and Interconnection, a study of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and others. He is the editor of Conversant Essays: Poets on Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Colorado Review, Ploughshares, The New England Review, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, among many other journals and magazines. He has written widely on contemporary poetry, fiction, and the visual arts. He currently teaches at Hobart College in Geneva, New York.
Sean Henry
September 16
7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
He read from his new work Limbo.
Dani Rado
Becky Pennell
Tuesday, September 21
7:00 p.m.
Lula's
FALL 2003
Benefit for
the St. Joseph County Literacy Council. September 13. 7 pm. Barnes
& Noble, Grape Road. MFA students Candice Adams, Campbell Irving,
Janet McNally, Dylan Reed, and James Matthew Wilson read poetry
and fiction.
Franco
Ferrucci
September 15
7 p.m. Hesburgh Library, Special Collections.
Distinguished scholar (Dante, Leopardi) and fiction writer [The
Life of God: (As Told by Himself)]. For more info and a fiction
excerpt: http://www.dante.nd.edu/
Dánta
September 15
4:00 p.m. Institute for Latino Studies, 208 McKenna Hall. Poetry
journal edited by M.F.A. students celebrates second issue with a
reading.
Maria Melendez
is a new fellow with the Center for Women's InterCultural Leadership
at Saint Mary's College. She has published poetry and fiction in
a variety of magazines including Puerto del Sol, Danta and Restoration
Ecology, and her chapbook, Base Pairs, appeared in 2001 from Swan
Scythe Press. She just completed a three-year position as writer-in-residence
at the U.C. Davis Arboretum, where she taught multicultural environmental
writing workshops for adults and children.
Jessica Maich
is a graduate of the Notre Dame Creative Writing Program. Her poems
have appeared in various publications including the ND Review. She
has a chapbook titled The West End published by Green Bean Press.
Her poem, "The Robakowski Sisters," was nominated for
a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Granger, Indiana.
Kevin Ducey
was born in Ohio and bred in Denver and San Francisco. His poems,
translations, fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such
as Exquisite Corpse, Bloomsbury Review, River City, and Chew. His
plays have been staged in Denver and San Francisco. He's the recipient
in 2000 of a Wisconsin Fellowship in Literature.
M.F.A. Readings
at Lula’s Café. Edison Road. Wednesday evenings commencing
September 17. Readings from students and faculty. See full updates
below.
Mary
Jo Bang and Allison Joseph
October 9
7:30 p.m., LaFortune Ballroom.
Bang is professor of English at Washington University and the award-winning
author of three books of poetry, including Louise in Love. Allison
Joseph, who teaches at Western Illinois, is the author of What Keeps
Us Here, Soul Train, and In Every Seam. Her honors include the 1992
Women Poets Series Competition Award.
Dana
Gioia
October 14
4 p.m. Hesburgh Library Auditorium.
The poet, librettist, and Chairman of the National Endowment for
the Arts speaks about national arts policy and performs his work.
William
O'Rourke, Rebecca Pennell, Evan Petee
October 15
7:30 p.m. Lula's Cafe, Edison Road
Last fall faculty/MFA reading!
Edna
O'Brien
October 17
4:30 p.m. Hesburgh Center Auditorium.
One of Ireland's most critically acclaimed and widely read novelists.
Sponsored by the Keough Institute for Irish Studies.
Robert
Kelly
October
28
5 p.m. Eck Center Auditorium
The
wildly inventive poet and prose writer, introduced by award winning
poet Jenny Boully. Sponsored by the English Department, Creative
Writing, and the William & Hazel White Chair in English.
Maryse
Conde
November 5, 5 p.m. and November 6, 10:00 a.m.
McKenna Hall.
The grande dame of Caribbean literature delivers two lectures, on
literary cannibalism (Nov 4) and globallization and Caribbean literature
(Nov 5). Sponsored by Romance Languages and Literature.
John
Wilkinson
November
10
7:30 p.m. Library Special Collections
The
iconoclastic British poet. Presented with the generous support of
ISLA.
Sara
Swanson
November 12
7:30 p.m. Wilson Commons.
The Nicholas Sparks Writer in Residence at Notre Dame, Swanson (M.F.A.
’03) is also a winner of the 2003 Associated Writing Programs
Intro Journals Award.
Orlando
Menes
November 12
4:00 p.m. McKenna Hall, Room 200
Menes, a professor of Creative Writing, is the Editor of
Renaming Ecstasy: Latino Writings on the Sacred, an anthology
of poetry. The evening will include a presentation about the anthology
and readings by Menes, Maria Melendez, and Theresa Delgadillo
Eugene
Wildman
November 20
7:30 p.m.,
Recker's Hospitality Room
Director of the Creative Writing Program at University of Illinois
Chicago, Wildman will read from his new collection of stories, The
World of Glass (University of Notre Dame Press).
Antonia
Logue
November
21
4:30 p.m. 424 Flanner Hall. Novelist (and winner of the 1998 Irish
Times Literary Prize for Shadow Box will read from new
work. Sponsored by the Keough Institute for Irish Studies.
Kevin
Hart
December 4
7:30 p.m. Dillon Hall Chapel. Internationally celebrated poet, critic,
and colleague, reading from his new book, Flame Tree: Selected
Poems (Bloodaxe).
SPRING 2004
Orígenes Poetry Slam: Cuban Poets José Lezma
Lima and Virgilio Pinera in Translation
Friday, February 6
12:00-1:30 p.m. in 110 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Translations and readings by Ben Heller (Iberian and Latin American
Studies) and Osvaldo de la Torre (MA student, Iberian and Latin
Amrican Studies). Moderated by Tom Andersn (Iberian and Latin American
Studies).
Sonia Sanchez
Tuesday, February 24
7 p.m. in Carroll Auditorium, St. Mary's College
Sonia Sanchez is a renowned writer, poet, and activist who has been
an influential force in political and African American literary
culture for over three decades. Sanchez is the author of over 16
books including the winner of the 1985 American Book Award for Poetry,
Homegirls and Handgrenades. Her most recently published work
is Shake Loose My Skin.
Lula Returns: MFA/Faculty Reading Series
every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. through March 31st, 2004
See updates below:
Lula's
Wednesday, March 3
7:30 p.m.
Francisco Aragón (Fellow at the Institute of Latino Studies
and Creative Writing Program faculty), Lisa Gonzalez (Fiction, MFA
candidate) and Angela Hur (Fiction, MFA candidate).
Lula's
Wednesday, March 17
7:30 p.m.
Janet McNalley (Fiction, MFA candidate), Michael Estes (Poet, MFA
candidate), William O'Rourke (Novelist, Professor, Creative Writing
Program)
Lula's
Wednesday, March 24
7:30 p.m.
Sonia Gernes (Poet & Novelist, Professor of Creative Writing),
Dani Rado (Fiction, MFA candidate), Shannon Reidy (Poet, MFA candidate).
Samuel Hazo
Wednesday, March 24
7:30 p.m. LaFortune Ballroom
Poet and author of several volumes of fiction, essays and plays,
Sam Hazo is the director of the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh,
where he is also McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus
at Duquesne Univversity. His latest book is The Holy Surprise
of Right Now.
Lula's
Wednesday, March 31
7:30 p.m. Lula's Cafe
Kymberly Taylor performing with Tina and Bill Bosler (Kymberly is
associate faculty in the Creative Writing Program, Tina is a sopranoist
and Bill Bosler is a musician), Kevin Ducey( poet and MFA candidate),
Matthew Benedict (Fiction, associate faculty, iCreative Writing
Program).
Jay Wright
March 31 and April 1
Renowned African American poet and playwright Jay Wright will visit
the University for two days. On March 31, he will read from his
play at 119 O'Shaughnessey Hall at noon . On April 1, he will give
a poetry reading at the Hesburgh Peace Center Auditorium at 7:30
p.m. The author of seven books of pooetry, his honors include a
Guggenheim Fellowship, and American Acaemy and Institute of Arts
and Letters Award, a MacArthur Fellowhip, and a Rockefeller Brothers
Theological Fellowship.
& Now: A Festival
of Writing as a Contemporary Art.
April 5-6.
Four writers variously described as avant garde, experimental, hybrid,
conceptual, and alternative will perform, interact, translate, surprise:
Lydia Davis, Stacey Levine, Joe Amato, and Debra Di Blasi. Made
possible in part by generous support from the Paul M. and Barbara
Henkels Lecture Series, the Philosophy and Literature Program, and
the Departments of English and Romance Languages & Literature.
Activities will be held within venues that include the Center for
Continuing Education in McKenna Hall and in Riley Hall.
Arturo Vivante
Wednesday, April 14
7:30 p.m. LaFortune Ballroom
Arturo Vivante, renowned novelist, is the Sullivan Prize Winner
for 2003. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and
other major national venues.
MFA Thesis Reading
Thursday, April 22
7:30 p.m.. Notre Dame Room
MFA candidates read from their theses: Shaun Dillon, Kevin Ducey,
Campbell Irving, Kelly Kerney, Corey Madsen, Stephanie Reidy.
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