Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
Information for
Creative Writing Program
Purdue University Reading Series, 2007-2008
Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the English Department and the College of Liberal Arts
Spring 2008
Cathy Day, Nonfiction Reading
Monday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Marianne Boruch, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Mark Jarman, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Mark Jarman, Poetry Discussion
Wednesday, March 5, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Peter Ho Davies, Fiction Discussion
Wednesday, March 19, 4:00 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Peter Ho Davies, Fiction Reading
Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium
Michael Chabon, Purdue Literary Awards
Sponsored by Purdue Libraries
Tuesday, April 15
Awards Banquet, PMU North Ballroom, 5:30 p.m.
Reading, Loeb Playhouse, 8:00 p.m.
Fall 2007
This fall was full of wonderful creative writing events. In September, Purdue Libraries and the Purdue Black Cultural Center sponsored a nonfiction reading by Ishmael Beah, and the MFA and Jewish Studies Programs hosted fiction writer Kate Bernheimer and poet Norman Finkelstein. October was Experience Liberal Arts month, and Creative Writing sponsored two of the major events: a poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski and a colloquium, lecture and reading by Joyce Carol Oates. November featured the Writers Harvest benefit reading with MFA faculty members and special guest Donald Bain and a Purdue Black Cultural Center-sponsored poetry reading by Sterling Plumpp. Also, in November the Purdue Oncological Sciences Center and Department of English hosted a colloquium that included a creative nonfiction reading and lecture by Terry Tempest Williams, a poetry reading by Sue Ellen Thompson and a fiction reading and workshop with Sandi Wisenberg.
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 and Sherman Alexie. For more information please visit the Literary Awards website.
Recent Visiting Writers to the MFA program have included: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Li-Young Lee, Susan Neville, Edward P. Jones, Russell Edson, Andre Dubus III, Alicia Ostriker, Michael Martone, Heather McHugh, Steve Yarbrough, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Denise Duhamel and Charles Baxter.
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 Daryll Lynne Evans, Benjamin Kolp, Jessica Mehr, Tamara Minks, Patrick Nevins and Jon Sealy and poets Keverlee Burchett, Brian Dunn, Melinda Gutowski, and Anna Lowe will be held on March 28, April 4 and April 11 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.
Questions?
For questions regarding the Purdue University Reading Series, 2007-2008, please contact MFA Program Assistant Director and Reading Series Coordinator Daryll Lynne Evans.