Spring 2013 Department of English Events

Creative Writing-Poetry & -Nonfiction Events

in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Sandra Simonds & Joe Harrington

Wednesday, February 13, 5:30p.m.

Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, Second Floor

SANDRA SIMONDS grew up in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA in Psychology and Creative Writing at UCLA and an MFA from the University of Montana, where she received a poetry fellowship. In 2010, she earned a PhD in Literature from Florida State University. Her second book of poems, Mother was a Tragic Girl, was published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2012. She is also the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), which was a finalist for numerous prizes including the National Poetry Series; she is also the author of several chapbooks including Used White Wife (Grey Book Press, 2009) and The Humble Travelogues of Mr. Ian Worthington, Written from Land & Sea (Cy Gist, 2006). Her poems have been published in many journals including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Believer, Colorado Review, Fence, Columbia Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Volt, New Orleans Review and Lana Turner. Her creative nonfiction has been published in Post Road and other literary journals. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.

JOE HARRINGTON, is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan Univ. Press 2011), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer; it was a Rumpus magazine Poetry Book Club selection. He is the author of the chapbook Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees 2010) and the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan 2002). His creative work also has appeared in Hotel Amerika, No Tell Motel, 1913, BathHouse, Otoliths, Fact-Simile, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. He teaches at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Peter Gizzi & Brenda Shaughnessy

Wednesday, March 13, 5:30p.m.

Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall, 1312 S. Michigan

PETER GIZZI is the author of numerous books, including Artificial Heart (1998), The

Outernationale (2007), and most recently, Threshold Songs (2011). His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets (1993) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005). In 2011 he was the Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Cambridge University. His editing projects have included The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998) and My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (2008) with Kevin Killian. He works at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY’s most recent collection of poetry is Our Andromeda (Copper Canyon Press, September 2012). She is also the author of Human Dark with Sugar, a finalist for the 2008 NBCC Award and winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and Interior with Sudden Joy, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Slate.com and elsewhere. She is currently Assistant Professor of English and in the MFA program at Rutgers University at Newark. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, son and daughter.

Jay Ponteri

Tuesday, March 19, 5:30p.m.

Hokin Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave., 109

JAY PONTERI directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Marylhurst University and show:tell, The Workshop for Teen Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary magazine M Review and HABIT Books, a publisher of prose and poetry chapbooks. His memoir, Wedlocked, is being published by Hawthorne Books, March 2013. His chapbook of short prose, Darkmouth Strikes Again, is being published by Future Tense Books, summer 2013. He has published prose in Del Sol Review, Seattle Review,Salamander, Cimarron Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Forklift, Ohio, among others.

COURT GREEN NO. 10 RELEASE READING

Thursday, March 21st, 5:30p.m.

Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave. Rm. 101

A release and reading for the tenth issue of COURT GREEN, the Department of English’s faculty-edited poetry journal, which features a dossier on sex.

14^th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival

Thursday, April 4, 5:30pm

Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 101

The Columbia College Chicago Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival brings together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work.

Dinty W. Moore & Amy Leach

Tuesday, April 16, 5:30pm

Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan, Second Floor

DINTY W. MOORE, is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. He also edited The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers. A professor of nonfiction writing at Ohio University, Moore has won many awards for his writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction.

AMY LEACH, is the author of Things That Are, published by Milkweed Editions. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in Best American Essays, A Public Space, Orion, and The Gettysburg Review, among other journals. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She lives in Montana.

Columbia Poetry Review no. 26 Release Reading

Thursday, May 9, 5:30pm