Creative Writing Program

Purdue University Visting Writers Series 2009

Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the English Department and the College of Liberal Arts.

Spring 2009

Susan Stewart, Poetry Reading

Thursday, January 29, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

AWP Conference in Chicago
*Note: The Purdue MFA Program will be a sponsor at the AWP Conference in Chicago and many current students, faculty and alumni will be participating in panels, giving readings and signings and attending the Sycamore Review 20th Anniversary reunion party.
February 11-14, 2009
Hilton Chicago

Craig Arnold, Poetry Reading


Monday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Nami Mun, Reading
Thursday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Fred Arroyo (MFA ’97), Alumni Fiction Reading
Co-Sponsored by Latino Cultural Center
Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Jane Hamilton, Fiction Reading
Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210

Jane Hamilton, Craft Discussion
Friday, March 27, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Rita Dove, Lecture and Poetry Reading
Purdue Literary Awards
Sponsored by Purdue Libraries
Wednesday, April 15
Awards Banquet, PMU North Ballroom, 5:30 p.m.
Reading, Fowler Hall, 8:00 p.m.

History of Purdue Literary Awards and Visiting Writers

Literary Awards has been an institution at Purdue since 1928. Speakers have included: Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Thorton Wilder, Eudora Welty, Robert Frost, Katharine Ann Porter, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Ashbery, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Edward Albee, Derek Walcott, Louise Erdrich, Denise Levertov, Russell Banks, Seamus Heaney, Tony Kushner, Charles Wright, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie and Michael Chabon. For more information, please visit the Literary Awards website.

Recent Visiting Writers to the MFA program have included: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Li-Young Lee, Edward P. Jones, Russell Edson, Andre Dubus III, Alicia Ostriker, Quan Barry, Michael Martone, Heather McHugh, Steve Yarbrough, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Denise Duhamel, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Adam Zagajewski, and Peter Ho Davies.

MFA Student Reading Series

These informal readings by current MFA students are held on the occasional Tuesday in the Spring at the Knickerbocker in Downtown Lafayette. For scheduling information, please contact coordinator Dan Tyx.

MFA Thesis Readings

These celebratory readings, by fiction writers Brian Beglin, Erin Blakeslee, Mehdi Okasi and Dan Tyx  and poets David Blomenberg, Eric Scovel, Theresa Smith and R.J. Talyor will be held on April 10 and April 17 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.

Questions?

For questions regarding the Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2008-2009, please contact Reading Series Coordinator Dan Tyx.