CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM & RELATED EVENTS
Spring 2015
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Thursday, February 19, 2015, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., Wilder 101
Coordinated by the Oberlin Dance Department
Benjamin Landry is a Research Associate in Creative Writing at Oberlin College and the author of Particle and Wave (Chicago). His poems have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Guernica, The Kenyon Review Online and Poetry Daily. His reviews and essays have appeared in Boston Review, The Los Angeles
Review of Books, The Rumpus and elsewhere. More about his work can be found at www.benjaminlandry.wordpress.com
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Thursday, March 5, 2015, 7:00 p.m., Hallock Auditorium
Nami Mun grew up in Seoul, South Korea and Bronx, New York.
For her first book, Miles from Nowhere, she received a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Publi c Library’s 21st Century Award, and was shortlisted for the
Orange Prize for New Writers and the Asian American Literary Award.
Miles From Nowhere was selected as Editors’ Choice and Top Ten First Novels by Booklist;
Best Fiction of 2009 So Far by Amazon; and as an Indie Next Pick. Chicago Magazine named her Best New Novelist of 2009.
Sponsored by The Creative Writing Program
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March 31 – April 1, 2015
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March 31, Guest Lecturer 7-9 p.m. (AJ Lewis Center)
April 1, Symposium 4:30 p.m. Hallock Aud. (AJ Lewis Center)
Poetry Reading
Thursday, April 2, 2015 – 5:00 p.m. Fairchild Chapel
Brian Teare’s collections of poetry include The Room Where I Was Born (2003), winner of the
Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, and Sight Map (2009).
Teare was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. A critic as well as a poet, his work has appeared in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006)
and At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn (2009).
Sponsored by The Creative Writing Program

Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Finney Chapel
Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India and grew up in Columbus, Ohio.
His poetry collections include 3 Sections (Graywolf Press, 2013), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry;
The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004), which won the James Laughlin Award ; and Wild Kingdom (1996).
Co-sponsored by The Convocation Series and the Office of the President
Poetry Reading
Thursday, April 23, 2015 – 7:00 p.m. Fairchild Chapel
Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently
Place: New Poems (Ecco, 2012); Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), and
The Dream of the Unified Field
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Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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