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Past Events & Seminars Archive

Past Events Archives

 

Elliston Series: Lynn Emanuel

Lynn EmanuelLynn Emanuel holds a BA from Bennington College, an MA from the City College of New York, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Bennington Writers' Conference, and The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing. Currently, she is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of four books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly- and, forthcoming, Mob And Torch. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has been a poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology, a member of the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a judge for the National Book Awards. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a National Poetry Series Award.

Jeff Gundy and Liz Tilton Poetry Reading

Jeff Gundy teaches at Bluffton State University. His poetry collections include Flatlands, Inquiries, Rhapsody with Dark Matter, Deerflies (winner of the Editions Poetry Prize), and Spoken among the Trees. He is also the author of A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara, Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye, and Walker in the Fog: On Mennonite Writing (winner of the Dale W. Brown Award from Elizabethtown College).

Liz Tilton earned her PhD in English literature here at the University of Cincinnati and works in the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning. Her chapbook, Salt, won the Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition and was published earlier this year by Kent State University Press. Her poems have appeared in Southern Review, New Orleans Review, Southern Humanities Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and other periodicals.

Denis Johnson Fiction Reading

Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, plays, and books of verse, including THE INCOGNITO LOUNGE, ANGELS, JESUS' SON, and TREE OF SMOKE, which won the 2007 National Book Award for fiction. He lives in Idaho and Arizona.

Michelle Boisseau & Michael Rerick Poetry Reading

Michelle Boisseau's most recent book of poetry is A Sunday in God-Years, just out from the University of Arkansas Press. A PEN Award finalist and winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, she is the author of three previous books of poetry and coauthor of the creative-writing text Writing Poems, now in its seventh edition. She teaches at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Michael Rerick is a third-year Ph.D. student in our department. His new book In Ways Impossible to Fold won the 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, judged by Thylias Moss. It's just out from Marsh Hawk Press.

Scott Cairns Poetry Reading

Poetry reading by Scott Cairns, author of Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected, Recovered Body and Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven - A Pilgrimage.


C.D. Wright Poetry Reading

Poetry reading by C.D. Wright, MacArthur Fellow and former Elliston Poet. Her recent works are Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon, 2008) andCooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Copper Canyon, 2005). This event is a celebration of the fifth anniversary of The Cincinnati Review. Refreshments will be provided and the public is welcome.

Brad Vice Reading

Brad received his doctorate in English from UC in 2001. His first collection of short stories, The Bear Bryant Funeral Parade, won the Flannery O'Connor Prize in Short Fiction and was published by University of Georgia Press. It received rave reviews, including a starred reviewed from Kirkus; but shortly thereafter, Brad was accused of plagiarism, and University of Georgia Press pulled the book. River City Press then republished the book, and included an explanatory essay by Brad and letters/essays written by a number of prominent authors in Brad's defense. His short fiction and non fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Southern Review, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, Volume III. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Brad now divides his time between Starkville, Mississippi, and Pilsen in the Czech Republic, where he teaches at the University of West Bohemia.

Mark Winegardner Reading

Mark Winegardner was born and raised in Bryan, Ohio, near Exit 2, a town of 8,000 which supplies the world with its Dum-Dum suckers and Etch-a-Sketches. His parents owned an RV dealership there, and every summer he traveled with his family across the USA in various travel trailers and motorhomes. By the time he was 15, he had been in all 48 contiguous states. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Miami University and went on to receive a master of fine arts degree in fiction writing from George Mason University. He published his first book at age 26, while still in graduate school. He has taught at Miami, George Mason, George Washington, and John Carroll Universities, and is now a professor in the creative writing program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Winegardner has won grants, fellowships and residencies from the Ohio Arts Council, the Lilly Endowment, the Ragdale Foundation, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the Corporation of Yaddo. His books have been chosen as among the best of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, the New York Public Library, and USA Today. His work has appeared in GQ, Playboy, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, DoubleTake, Family Circle, The Sporting News, Witness, Story Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and The New York Times Magazine. Several of his stories have been chosen as Distinguished Stories of the Year in The Best American Short Stories. (www.markwinegardner.com)

 

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