Readings + Lectures - Calendar
September 4 at 8 pm - Barry Kitterman
September 10 at 8 pm - Louise Erdrich
October 22 at 4 pm - Gay Brewer and Kate Daniels
November 13 at 8 pm - Louise Erdrich
November 28 at 7 pm - Bread & Words
more information on each event is below
Barry Kitterman
will read from his new novel The Baker's Boy
8 pm, September 4, 2008
MMC Concert Theatre
A reception and book signing will follow the reading
www.barrykitterman.com
Author of The Baker's Boy
Barry Kitterman grew up in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. He attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1971-1975, receiving his A.B. in English. In the mid 70's he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Belize (Central America) where he taught in a boys reform school. In 1979, he entered the MFA program at the University of Montana, where he studied with Bill Kittredge and Earl Ganz. In 1985, he married his wife Jill, and they traveled to China and spent two years teaching at Chinese universities. They also taught for a short while at a childrens' school in Taiwan, returning to the States in 1988. Barry taught for several years at Indiana University East (composition and creative writing). He received a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the winter of 89-90, living and working with 10 writers and 10 visual artists over a 7-month stay. He taught for three years at Miami University (Ohio) and came to Austin Peay State University in the fall of 1995. Over the years he has worked at a variety of jobs: deckhand, waiter, iron worker, baker, and college professor. He has published his short fiction in a number of literary magazines, including Cutbank, Flyway, The Chariton Review, and The Green Hills Literary Lantern. Has has served as fiction editor of Zone 3 magazine, Shankpainter, and The Green Hills Literary Lantern.
Kitterman is a professor of English at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Jill and his children Ted and Hannah.
photo by Bettina Straus
Louise Erdrich
will read from her work
8 pm, September 10, 2008
MMC Concert Theatre
8 pm, November 13, 2008
Clement Auditorium
A reception and book signing will follow both readings.
Erdrich is the author of twelve novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Erdrich lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore. She will work closely with the Austin Peay community as this year’s recipient of the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence.
Gay Brewer and Kate Daniels
will read from their poems
4 pm, October 22, 2008
Gentry Auditorium/Kimbrough Building
A book signing will follow the reading.
Kate Daniels
Author of The Niobe Poems
Kate Daniels' books of poetry include The White Wave, The Niobe Poems, and Four Testimonies. She has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, a Crazyhorse Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, and the James Dickey Prize, and has been selected for LSU Press's Southern Messenger Series. Her poems have been anthologized in a number of publications and have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Critical Quarterly, and the Southern Review. She has also edited a volume of poems by Muriel Rukeyser and co-edited the book Of Solitude and Silence: Writings on Robert Bly.
Daniels lives in Nashville and teaches at Vanderbilt University.
Gay Brewer
Poet and playwright
Gaylord Brewer is founding editor of the journal Poems & Plays. The most
recent of his seven books of poetry are Let Me Explain (Iris, 2006) and
Orphic Prize winner The Martini Diet (Dream Horse, 2008). His plays have
been staged in Alaska, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee, and
published in The Art of the One-Act, Blackwater Review, Coe Review, Collages
& Bricolages, One on One: Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century,
Shades of December, Stage Whisper, and Verve. Additional publications
include David Mamet and Film (McFarland, 1993) and Charles Bukowski
(Twayne/Macmillan, 1997) and the forthcoming novella Octavius the 1st (Red
Hen, 2008). For the Summer Literary Seminars he taught in St. Petersburg and
Kenya. His most recent fellowship was at the Global Arts Village in Delhi,
India.
Brewer teaches at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
Bread & Words annual benefit reading and dinner
Dinner at 6:00 pm
Reading by APSU faculty, graduate students, and special guests
7 pm, November 25, 2008
Morgan University Center Ballroom
