Monday, January 18, 2010
Spring RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series includes Alan Cheuse
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Contact for more information:
Brandi Schwartz Marketing Coordinator Outreach & Engagement 812/464-1854 A reception and book signing will follow each reading. All readings are free and open to the public. Douglas Goetsch 6 p.m., Thursday, February 11 Kleymeyer Hall, USI's Liberal Arts Center Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include Nobody's Hell, The Job of Being Everybody, and four chapbooks. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in several publications including Poetry, The Iowa Review, and Best American Poetry. He is currently poet-in-residence at the University of Central Oklahoma and is the founding editor of Jane Street Press. Eric Puchner 5 p.m., Thursday, March 25 Kleymeyer Hall, USI's Liberal Arts Center Eric Puchner is the author of the story collection Music through the Floor, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. His short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, The Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review, and Best New American Voices. He is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Puchner plans to publish his first novel, Model Home, later this year. Crystal Wilkinson 5 p.m., Thursday, April 15 Kleymeyer Hall, USI's Liberal Arts Center Crystal Wilkinson is the author of Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the 2002 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK's Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Kentucky Arts Council, the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2008, Wilkinson won the Denny Plattner Award in poetry from Appalachian Heritage Magazine. She currently teaches writing and literature in the BFA program in creative writing at Morehead State University. She has also taught in the MFA in writing programs at Spalding University and Indiana University-Bloomington. Alan Cheuse College of Liberal Arts 2010 Distinguished Scholar Lecture 7:30 p.m., Friday, April 23 Mitchell Auditorium, USI Health Professions Center For more than 25 years, Alan Cheuse has been reading for America every week on NPR's All Things Considered. He has written a number of books and has taught the art of narrative and literature for over 20 years at George Mason University. He is the author of the novels The Grandmothers' Club and The Light Possessed, the short story collections Lost and Old Rivers and The Tennessee Waltz, and a memoir, Fall Out of Heaven. His latest novel, To Catch the Lightning, won the Grub Street National Prize for fiction in 2009. He also published a collection of travel essays titled A Trance After Breakfast. Cheuse recently teamed up with fellow novelist Nicholas Delbanco to write Literature: Craft & Voice, an introduction to college literary study. Since the late 1980s, Cheuse has taught in the Master of Fine Arts program at George Mason University and at the summer conference of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Presented by USI's College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Visiting Writers Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers Union. Alan Cheuse is presented in cooperation with the University Core Curriculum Lecture Series. Publications by these all the authors in the series are available for purchase at the USI Bookstore and Barnes and Noble Booksellers. For more information, call Nicole Louise Reid, associate professor of English, at 812/464-1916. |
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