*** Please note the corrected date for LeAnne Howe’s reading on March 4th. ***
The English Reading Series - Winter 2016
All readings take place at noon in the HBLL Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated.
January 15
BRENT NEWSOM is the author of Love’s
Labors. His poems have also appeared in
Southern Review, Hopkins Review, PANK, Cave
Wall, and elsewhere. He received a Fulbright
fellowship to China, and since 2012 he has
been Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University.
January 22
JONI TEVIS is the author of two books of
essays, The Wet Collection: A Field Guide to
Iridescence and Memory, and The World Is On
Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse.
Her essays have appeared in Orion, Poets &
Writers, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and
elsewhere. She serves as the Bennette E. Geer
Professor of Literature at Furman University.
January 29
CRAIG DWORKIN is the author of over a
half-dozen books of poetry, including Motes,
Chapter XXIV, and Alkali. He has also published
two scholarly monographs, and edited five
collections. He teaches literature and theory at
the University of Utah and serves as Founding
Senior Editor to Eclipse.
February 5
PHYLLIS BARBER writes about the West, the
desert, and Mormons. Her first memoir, How I
Got Cultured, won the AWP Award for Creative
Nonfiction in 1991, and her most recent, Raw
Edges: A Memoir, was listed as one of the
Outstanding University Press Books of 2010 by
Foreword Reviews’ print magazine.
February 12
ASHLEY KRAMER has been a finalist for a Ruth
Lilly Fellowship and nominated for a Pushcart
Prize. Her work is published or forthcoming
in Passages North, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, Iron Horse, and elsewhere. She is
currently Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences at
Westminster College.
February 23*
DEBRA MONROE is the author of six books,
including, My Unsentimental Education, and
On the Outskirts of Normal. She has won
many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor
Award. Her essays have appeared in the New
York Times, Salon.com, The American Scholar,
and elsewhere.
February 26
WYN COOPER is the author of four books of
poems, most recently Chaos is the New Calm.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate,
The Southern Review, AGNI, 25 anthologies of
contemporary poetry, and more than 100 magazines. He currently works as a freelance editor
of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
March
March 43
LEANNE HOWE is the author of novels,
plays, poetry, screenplays, and scholarship
that deal with Native experiences. Her latest
book, Choctalking on Other Realities, won the
inaugural 2014 MLA Prize for Studies in Native
American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.
She’s the Eidson Distinguished Professor of
American Literature in English at the University
of Georgia.
March 11 - The Paxman Student Reading
March 18 - Humanities 50th Anniversary
Essay Contest Winners Reading
March 25
ERIC FREEZE is author of the short story
collection, Dominant Traits, and a collection of
creative nonfiction, Hemingway on a Bike. He
has published stories, essays, and translations
(French to English) in numerous periodicals
including Boston Review, Harvard Review, and
The Southern Review. He teaches creative
writing at Wabash College.
April 8
PATRICK MADDEN is the author of Sublime
Physick and Quotidiana. His essays have been
published in Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika,
the Iowa Review, McSweeney’s, the Normal
School, and elsewhere. He co-edited After
Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the
Essays. He currently teaches at Brigham Young
University.
*NOTE: The Debra Monroe reading on February 23rd will be held in
the Special Collections Classroom (1131 HBLL) at 7 p.m.