Reading Series - Princeton University

The Program in Creative Writing presents
The Program in Creative Writing presents
Althea
Althea Ward
Ward Clark
Clark W'21
W’21
reading series
2013-2014
Reading
Series
2014-15
wednesday,
September
Wednesday, September
25 24
wednesday,
February
11
Wednesday, March
12
wednesday, October 15
Wednesday,
October 16
Ben
Lerner (fiction/poetry)
Wednesday, April
16 11
wednesday,
March
wednesday, November 19
Wednesday,Hemon
November
13
Aleksandar
(fiction)
Wednesday, April
30 15
wednesday,
April
Hanna
HodderPylväinen
Fellows: (fiction)
&Katy
Roger
Reeves
(poetry)
Didden
[poetry]
Adam Ross [fiction]
[poetry]
&Richard
Steven Blanco
Millhauser
(fiction)
Geoff Dyer [fiction]
Evie
Shockley
(poetry)
Dana
Levin [poetry]
&Claire
Meg Wolitzer
(fiction)
Vaye Watkins
[fiction]
D.A. Sharma
Powell [poetry]
Akhil
(fiction)
[fiction]
&Ann
A. E.Beattie
Stallings
(poetry)
[poetry]
&David
DeanFerry
Young
(poetry)
Jamaica Kincaid [fiction]
Student
Readings
Rachel
Kushner
(fiction)
[Chancellor
Green
& John Yau (poetry)Rotunda
5:15 p.m.]
Student Readings
(Chancellor Green Rotunda)
[Chancellor Green Rotunda
5:15 p.m.]
Thesis Readings
in Poetry,
(Chancellor
Green Rotunda)
Screenwriting, and Translation
[Palmer House]
MOnday,
May 4
wednesday,
December
10
Wednesday,
December
11
Student Readings
Tuesday, October
21
Wednesday,
February 12
Kevin Young
delivers
the
Denise
Duhamel
[poetry]
Theodore
H.
Holmes
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Teju Cole [fiction]
and Bernice Holmes Lecture
(James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater)
wednesday, April 29
Monday,Readings
May 5
Student
Thesis Readings in Poetry,
Wednesday, May 7
Screenwriting, and Translation
Thesis Readings in Fiction
(Chancellor
Green Rotunda)
[Palmer House]
wednesday, May 6
Thesis Readings in Fiction
(Chancellor Green Rotunda)
all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre,
McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise
all readings take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre,
McCarter Theatre Center unless noted otherwise
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Reading by:
Reading by Hodder Fellows:
Aleksandar
Hemon (fiction)
Katy
Didden [poetry]
Dean
(poetry)
Adam Young
Ross [fiction]
Readings are free and open to the public.
readings are free and open to the public.
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Berlind Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center
the Berlind Theatre
McCarter Theatre Center
aleksandar hemon dean young
Introduced by Jeffrey Eugenides
About his latest collection of
nonfiction work, The Book of
My Lives, Junot Díaz wrote,
“Incandescent. When your eyes
close, the power of Aleksandar
Hemon’s colossal talent remains.”
This autobiographical work was a
Aleksandar Hemon is the author finalist for the 2013 National Book
of The Lazarus Project, which was Critics Circle Award.
a finalist for the 2008 National
Book Award and National Book
Critics Circle Award, and three
Hemon will be introduced by Jeffrey
collections of short stories:
Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning
The Question of Bruno (2001);
author of the novel, MIDDLESEX, and
Nowhere Man (2004), which was Professor of Creative Writing at the
also a finalist for the National
Lewis Center.
Book Critics Circle Award; and
Love and Obstacles (2009).
Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited
Chicago in 1992, intending to
Dean Young’s numerous
collections of poetry include
Strike Anywhere (1995), winner
of the Colorado Prize for Poetry;
Skid (2002), finalist for the
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize;
Elegy on Toy Piano (2005),
finalist for the Pulitzer Prize;
and Primitive Mentor (2008),
shortlisted for the International
Griffin Poetry Prize. His poems
have been featured in Best
American Poetry numerous
times. He has also written a
book on poetics, The Art of
Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive
Force and Contradiction (2010).
Upon presenting Young
with the Academy Award
in Literature, the American
Academy of Arts and Letters
noted, “Dean Young’s poems are
as entertaining as a three-ring
circus and as imaginative as a
canvas by Hieronymus Bosch.”
Young has also been awarded
a Stegner Fellowship from
Stanford University, as well
as fellowships from the
Photo courtesy Dean Young
Photo by Velibor Božović
stay for a matter of months. While
he was there, Sarajevo came
under siege, and he was unable
to return home. Hemon wrote
his first story in English in 1995.
He was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius
grant” from the MacArthur
Foundation in 2004.
Introduced by Tracy K. Smith
Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts,
and the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown. He has taught at
the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the
low-residency M.F.A. program at
Warren Wilson College, and the
University of Texas-Austin, where
he holds the William Livingston
Chair of Poetry.
Young will be introduced by Tracy K.
Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and
Professor of Creative Writing at the
Lewis Center.