Fall 2009
November 11 Poets Out Loud 7 pm, 12 floor Lounge Acentos Latino/a Reading: Featuring Tara Betts, Rachel McKibbens and Willie Perdomo.
November 12 Toolbox Session: What Next? After the M.A. For Fordham M.A. Students 4 pm, Keating 3rd Auditorium Panel and discussion on application to PhD literature, MFA creative writing and PhD in creative writing programs as well as jobs outside of the academy.
November 19 How to Be a Writer in Hollywood* 7:30 pm, McNally Auditorium A reading with Larry Doyle who will also discuss writing for Hollywood. Doyle is a writer-producer for The Simpsons and a screenwriter for films such as Duplex, starring Ben Stiller and Drew Barrymore. He will discuss how his first novel, "I Love You, Beth Cooper" went from an unsellable screenplay to a best-selling award-winning novel, and then became a movie that was released this past summer, which you didn't see, because nobody did.
*Where they don't like writers.
Spring 2010 February 11 Prose Spotlight Reading: Tayari Jones 7 pm, South Lounge
Novelist and non-fiction writer, Tayari Jones reads. Jones is author of Leaving Atlanta and The Untelling. Leaving Atlanta won the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction. It was named “Novel of the Year” by Atlanta Magazine, “Best Southern Novel of the Year,” by Creative Loafing Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post both listed it as one of the best of 2002. Jones has received fellowships from organizations including Illinois Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Arizona Commission on the Arts and Le Chateau de Lavigny. Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University. She was recently named as the 2008 Collins Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation.
February 25 Poets Out Loud 7 pm, 12 floor Lounge Focus on Irish poetry: Stephen Burt, Eamon Grennan
Stephen Burt is the author of two critical books on poetry as well as two poetry collections, including Parallel Play. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Believer, the Nation, and the New York Times Book Review. He is an Associate Professor of English at Harvard University. Visit his website at www.closecallswithnonsense.com.
Eamon Grennan's collections include The Quick of It, (Graywolf Press, 2005); Renvyle, Winter (special limited edition, 2003); Still Life with Waterfall (2002), winner of the Lenore Marshall Award; Selected & New Poems (2000); Relations: New & Selected Poems (1998); So It Goes (1995), a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; As If It Matters (1992); What Light There Is and Other Poems (1989), a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize; What Light There Is (1987); and Wildly for Days (1983).As well as a number of Pushcart Prizes, he has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
March 8 Writing Wednesday
Writers in Residence Reading & Publishing Spotlight 7 pm, South Lounge Fordham University Writers in Residence Christina Baker Kline and Janet Kaplan will read and give practical advice on fiction and poetry publishing.
March 23 Poets Out Loud 7 pm, 12 floor Lounge POL Prize Book Launch Reading: Leslie Chang reads
March 24 Writing Wednesday: Poetry Slam 7 pm, South Lounge Fordham University Student Poetry Slam
April 12 Toolbox Session: Teaching Creative Writing For Fordham Graduate Students 6 pm, Room 041 Walsh Library Strategies for the teaching of creative writing.
April 14 Poets Out Loud 7 pm, 12 floor Lounge Edward Hirsch reads with winners of POL's Creative Writing Contest for High School students. Hirsch has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He has been a professor of English at Wayne State University and the University of Houston.Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
April 23 Fordham University Creative Writing Awards 7 pm, Student Lounge Reading and chocolate tasting reception for winners of Fordham Creative Writing Awards.
April 24 Welcome Table Press Conference In Praise of the Essay: Practice & Form
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Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words. When you are honest to your feelings, that triggering town chooses you. Your words used your way will generate your meanings. Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary. Your way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life. The relation of you to your language gains power.
