Public Readings Series Spring 2004
Creative Writing Program Reading Series
Stephen Dunn and Lawrence Raab
Dunn, a distinguished visiting poet at NYU, received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection Different Hours. Raab’s new book of poems, Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems, will appear this spring. His collection What We Don ’t Know About Each Other won the National Poetry Series and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Thursday, March 4
Fales Library, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
Nick Flynn, Caroline Hwang, Stephanie Lehmann, Gretchen Mattox, Sasha Troyan, Shao Wei
Graduates of the Writing Program read from their new books of poetry and fiction.
Thursday, March 11
Fales Library, Bobst Library,70 Washington Square South
E.L.Doctorow
E.L.Doctorow's novels include Welcome to Hard Times, Big as Life, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World's Fair, City of God, and Sweet Land Stories. Among his honors are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the National Humanities Medal. His new book, Sweet Land Stories, will appear this spring. E.L.Doctorow holds the Glucksman Chair in American Literature at NYU.
Thursday, April 1
NYU Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street
The Goldwater Writing Project Benefit Reading
Philip Levine and Writers from Goldwater Hospital
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and recipient of the 2004 Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award of Distinction, Levine will read with writers from Goldwater Hospital who participate in an ongoing writing workshop led by students in the Writing Program. Voluntary donation requested.
Monday, April 12
NYU Lipton Hall, 108 W.3rd Street
Dorothy Allison
Distinguished author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Trash, Alison was a finalist for the National Book Award and is the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards. This reading is co-sponsored by the Writing Program of The Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and LGBT Student Services.
Wednesday, April 14
NYU Bronfman Center, 7 East 10th Street
Ravishing Unity: Readings by Poets Influenced by the Work of Agha Shahid Ali
Elena Byrne, Marilyn Hacker, Daniel Hall, Anthony Lacavaro, Glyn Maxwell, Christopher Merrill, Elise Paschen and William Wadsworth
Friends of the late poet join together in his honor for the second annual Agha Shahid Ali Memorial Reading. Each poet will read a poem of Shahid's and a poem of their own and speak briefly about the impact Shahid had on their work.
Thursday, April 15 (NEW!)
Jurow Hall, 100 washington Square East (NEW!)
MFA Graduate Student Reading
Join us as we celebrate the work of our graduating poets and fiction writers.
Thursday, April 29
Fales Library, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South
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For more information call the Creative Writing Program at 212-998-8816. |
This year's reading series is made possible by generous support from the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of the Readers Digest Association. We offer our special thanks to an anonymous donor whose important contribution has enabled us to host writers from around the country who participate in informal seminars with the graduate writing students prior to the readings.
