EAST LANSING, Mich. — The MSU Center for Poetry in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities launches its fourth year of programming with an exciting and diverse fall reading series. Beginning 7 p.m. Oct. 20 and continuing for Wednesdays through Nov. 10, the center will host writers in the RCAH Theater, located in Snyder-Phillips Hall. All events are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Cynthia Huntington: Oct. 20
Cynthia Huntington is a professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College and the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She holds an master's degree from the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. Her publications include "The Fish Wife," "We Have Gone to the Beach," "The Salt House" and "The Radiant." She has won a number of awards, including the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Jane Kenyon Award and the Levis Prize.
Marcia Aldrich: Oct. 27
With Daisy Levy and Suzanne Webb
Marcia Aldrich teaches creative writing at MSU. She is the author of "Girl Rearing," published by W.W. Norton and part of the Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Series. In spring 2010, she was the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. She is the editor of "Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction." This year she was the recipient of Michigan's Distinguished Professor of the Year Award.
Daisy Levy and Suzanne Webb are doctoral students studying rhetoric and writing at MSU. Both are published writers who have connections to "Fourth Genre."
Gerald McCarthy: Nov. 3
Gerald McCarthy has worked as a stone cutter, shoe factory worker and anti-war activist. He holds degrees from SUNY Geneseo and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. A professor of English at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y., he is currently working on a memoir about his desertion from the military after a tour of duty in Vietnam. McCarthy is the recipient of awards from the National Writers Union and The New York State Council on the Arts, and has twice been a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome. McCarthy's reading is co-sponsored by "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives."
Rebecca Dunham: Nov. 10
Rebecca Dunham teaches in the doctoral creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her first book, "The Miniature Room" won the T.S. Eliot Prize. She was awarded an NEA Fellowship in 2007, has been a Jay C. and Ruth Hall Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and has won numerous poetry prizes, including the 2005 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. A new book, "The Flight Cage," is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.
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