Past Event
Friday, 5 December 2008, 3 p.m.
Mark Conway’s book of poetry Any Holy City won the Gerald Cable Book Award and was short-listed for this year’s PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Slate, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Bomb, Prairie Schooner, the Boston Review, the Grolier Poetry Prize Annual and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome and Bush Foundations, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Conway is also the poetry editor of Post Road.
Past Event
Friday, 7 November 2008, 4 p.m.
Mark Sarvas’s debut novel, Harry, Revised, has been published by Bloomsbury and will appear in a dozen languages around the world. He is the host of the acclaimed litblog “The Elegant Variation” (a Forbes Magazine Best of the Web pick and Guardian Top 10 Literary Blog) and a member of the National Book Critics Circle. His criticism has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Threepenny Review and elsewhere.
Sarvas will read from his novel on Friday, Nov. 7 at 4:00 p.m. in the Aubrey Watzek Library, Pamplin Room.
Past Event
27 through 28 October 2008
Hazard Adams will visit campus October 27-28 for two events. Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington, and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His Critical Theory since Plato has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades.
On Monday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. he will deliver a lecture on Blake’s Annotations to Wordsworth in Miller Center for the Humanities, room 105. On Tuesday, October 28, at 3:30 p.m. he will read from his newest publications, The Offense of Poetry and Academic Child, in the Lewis & Clark College Bookstore. Copies of his books will be available for purchase and can be autographed.
Past Event
Friday, 4 April 2008, 3 p.m.
Circanian, Joanna Klink’s second book, offers beautifully crafted poems that are set in a variety of different physical and emotional locations, and that take as their guiding vision circadian clocks.
Past Event
Monday, 31 March 2008, 7 p.m.
Blanford Parker’s main interests are poetry, theories of poetry, prosody, and the history of ideas with a concern for philosophy and theology.
Past Event
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 7 p.m.
Herman Asarnow—poet, essayist, and translator— is the author of Glass-Bottom Boat (Higganum Hill Books, 2007), a collection of his recent poetry.
Past Event
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 7 p.m.
Sam Witt will read from his new book, Sunflower Brother, and also from his first book, Everlasting Quail. Additionally, he will read from a new manuscript on which he is working.
Past Event
Saturday, 9 February 2008
A symposium including readings, lectures, and discussions, asking the question: “What’s the use of poetry in the midst of the anxiety and promise of our times?”
