Readings + Lectures - Calendar
Fall 2009
July 14 at 7 pm - William Gay
Sept 15 at 7 pm - Ander Monson
October 29 at 7pm - Phillis Levin and Kate Gleason
November 24 at 6 pm - Bread & Words
William Gay
will read from his works
7 pm, July 14
Morgan University Center, Room 303.
WILLIAM GAY is the author of the novels The Long Home, Provinces of Night,
Twilight, and the short story collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go
Down. His fourth novel, The Lost Country, is due out from MacAdam/Cage in
June of 2009. Gay's short stories have appeared in Harper's, Atlantic
Monthly, GQ, and New Stories from the South 1999 and 2000. Aside from his
fictional work, he frequently contributes essays on music to magazines such
as Paste and Oxford American. Gay was awarded the 1999 William Peden Award,
the 2000 James A. Michener Memorial Prize, and was recently named a 2007 USA
Ford Foundation Fellow and awarded a $50,000 grant by United States Artists,
a public charity that supports and promotes the work of American artists. He
lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee.
Ander Monson
will read from his works
7 pm, September 15
Morgan University Center, Room 303.
Ander Monson is the author of three books: Neck Deep and Other
Predicaments: Essays (Graywolf Press, February 2007), Other
Electricities (a sort-of novel, Sarabande Books, 2005), and
Vacationland (poems, Tupelo Press, 2005). Visit his web site at
www.otherelectricities.com/
Phillis
Levin
will read from her works
7 pm, October 29
Morgan University Center, Room 303.
Phillis Levin was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and educated at Sarah Lawrence College and at The Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. Levin is the author of four collections of poetry: Temples and Fields (University of Georgia Press, 1988), winner of the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award; The Afterimage (Copper Beech Press, 1995); Mercury (Penguin, 2001); and May Day (Penguin, 2008). Her poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Grand Street, Poetry, The Nation, Agni, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Literary Imagination, and The Paris Review, and have been published in a broad range of anthologies, including Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (edited by Billy Collins), Poems of New York (edited by Elizabeth Smith), and several editions of The Best American Poetry (1989, 1998, and 2009, forthcoming). She was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 program "In Our Time" in a conversation on the sonnet; her poem "May Day" was featured by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac."
Levin's honors include a 1986 Ingram Merrill Grant, a 1995 Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, the 1999 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2006 Richard Hugo Prize from Poetry Northwest, and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has been an Elector of the American Poets' Corner of The Cathedral of St. John the Divine and is co-director of The Sarah Lawrence Language Exchange, which sponsors the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, a competition she founded in 1999. From 1985 to 1997 she was an editor of Boulevard magazine. She was the guest poetry co-editor for the 2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIII Best of the Small Presses, and served as judge for the 2008 Barrow Street Press Book Contest and the 2008 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry.
Levin is completing her fifth collection of poems and is working on the libretto for an opera. She is a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.
Kate Gleason
winner of the 2008 Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry
will read from her new book Measuring the Dark
7 pm, October 29
Morgan University Center, Room 303.
Kate Gleason’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry,
Boomer Girls, Claiming the
Spirit Within, Crab Orchard Review, Ekphrasis, Green Mountains Review,
Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sonora Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review,
Zone 3, and elsewhere. A recipient of writing fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts (in conjunction with the Ragdale Foundation
artists colony), the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the
Vermont Studio Center, she also won the Outstanding Emerging Writer Award
from the New Hampshire Writers’ Project and was nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry,
The Brighter The Deeper (winner
of the Embers chapbook competition) and
Making As If To Sing (AWA Press).
She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
and has attended writing workshops at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work
Center, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project, and Amherst Writers and Artists.
Formerly the editor of Peregrine
literary journal and a poet in the schools, she leads writing workshops,
retreats, and seminars. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, Glenn
Lawrence, and their dog, Abbie.
Bread & Words annual benefit reading and dinner
Dinner at 6:00 pm
Reading by APSU faculty, graduate students, and special guests
7 pm, November 24, 2009
Morgan University Center Ballroom
