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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)

 

Ward Phillips Lectures 2006

Charles Bernstein

Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania

November 27 - 29, 2006

Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Schedule of events [click]

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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