Tuesday, January 10, 2006
2006 RopeWalk Reading Series announced
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Readings in the RopeWalk Series are free and open to the public. A book signing will follow each program. Ken Smith Thursday, February 23 – 7 p.m., Kleymeyer Hall, Liberal Arts Center: Smith is UC Foundation Professor of English at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, where he teaches courses in creative writing, American literature and western humanities. He is the author of the story collections Decoys and Other Stories and Angels and Others, as well as dozens of short stories, essays, and works of creative nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Crazyhorse, Sonora Review, and Tri-Quarterly, and has been featured in the collections Best American Short Stories and Best of the West. He also has been a writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University. Michael Waters Thursday, March 23 – 7 p.m., Kleymeyer Hall, Liberal Arts Center: Waters is professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland and teaches in the New England College MFA Program in poetry. His books of poetry include Darling Vulgarity, Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems, and Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum. He has been the recipient of a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, several Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and three Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in journals including Poetry, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review, Rolling Stone, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Georgia Review, The North American Review, and Ploughshares. Allison Joseph Thursday, April 27 – 7 p.m., Kleymeyer Hall, Liberal Arts Center: Joseph is the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowed Professor in English at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where she also directs the Young Writers Workshop. She is the author of five collections of poetry: What Keeps Us Here, winner of the 1992 Ampersand Press Women Poets Series Competition; Worldly Pleasures, 2003 winner of the Word Press Poetry Prize; Soul Train, In Every Seam, and Imitation of Life. Her work also has appeared in numerous anthologies including American Poetry: The Next Generation. She was recently featured on NPR's “Morning Edition” reading her poem “Kitchen” from Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets do Housework. Presented by USI’s College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, call 812/461-5381. |
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